National Record Store Day

National Record Store Day is April 18, and its stated goal is not only to bring to light the glorious nature of the brick-and-mortar retail experience but also to illustrate why neighborhood record stores’ vitality is good for the community — and one of the last, best refuges from the doldrums of corporate sonic homogeny. Even Coachella, which celebrates the live-music experience, is honoring its recorded-music allies; its on-site shop is being operated in conjunction with National Record Store Day

Tomorrow at work we're gonna have a BBQ, give people 10% off, and free $0.50 records with purchase of other merchandise. also, we will have maybe just a few of the record store day exclusives--the matador & daptone jams, as well as the jesus lizard singles set.

i think they're available tomorrow and if they don't sell out will be available for a few days until they disappear? i don't think we're expected to return items that don't sell during the "event" tomorrow.

If you want any of this stuff, go NOW! I got to Waterloo Records two minutes before it opened and the line just started to wind around the building. Dude in front of me bought two of the Springsteen single. A gal walking by was carrying about ten (10!!) copies of THIS LP CRASHES HARD DRIVES. And so on. Still, I managed to get everything I wanted and then some (from three different stores):

I went into Rounder and Resident and Borderline in Brighton, but they were mostly oppressively full so I had to extricate myself. Also I had no money to spend. But yeah, good to see some interesting in-store stuff going on and people being reminded to use or lose.

I buy loads of records in thrift stores and garage sales, so maybe I am part of the problem. Usually they are way cheaper and more interesting in those places. But I'm still not partaking in this event today. Maybe that makes me lame. Independent stores deserve to survive, and I hope setting aside a special day for them pulls lots of young kids into the habit -- especially kids pointlessly addicted to getting music the day it comes out, a habit that has never made any sense to me. But braving the crowds seems silly. And I've never been somebody to buy records just because they're rare -- especially when they're created for the sole purpose of their rarity. Seems artificial to me somehow, and none of the records above strike me as all that inticing. (I thought something similar when baseball card companies got self-conscious about their collectibility, and it bugged me then, too. Not that it's especially anything new with record labels -- see also: SubPop Singles Club or whatever.) Anyway, more power to the stores -- whatever pulls in customers. I hope they all make tons of money. A friend of mine who runs a store in Philly said Record Store Day last year was his best day in years, and I hope this year he doesn't even better.

had a good time! my "home base" store Roadrunner was grilling out in back and had coolers of beer....couple hot dogs were great!

i didn't really go in for any of the crazy exclusive shit, most of that was already sold out anyway.

i did get the Arthur Russel "Love Is Overtaking Me" vinyl but I wanted that anyway. Didn't see the Def Jam thing or would have gotten that...The Sonic Youth/Reatard single is going to be crazy Ebay bait, so many dudes looking for that.

I buy loads of records in thrift stores and garage sales, so maybe I am part of the problem. Usually they are way cheaper and more interesting in those places.

Yeah...kinda my problem too. Looking at the list up there, and, Arthur Russell apart there's not a whole lot i would want - it's all very white and young. Thing is, I'd bet it's guys like me that spend most on records now - middle aged, not all that interested in new stuff necessarily. What killed going to record stores for me was the CD - I just never got that excited about buying them, so when Vinyl started appearing in quantities in charity shops, and then on the 'bay, that's where my purchasing went.

We had a really really great day at the shop I work at - loads of bands and artists playing all afternoon, loads of interest generated by the day itself and by the exclusive releases, most of which sold well. It was a wonderful party atmosphere and majorly busy all day long. Great fun and inspiring for our continued survival.

I'll see what I can do, but no promises, I'm afraid. It's looking like, following Rough Trade's example, we could well be holding raffles for the really high demand items, as it's looking like we could only get a ridiculously small number (like 2 or 3 of each) and a hella lotta interest. I can put your name down for raffle entry for sure and will defn. keep you posted on how things pan out.

'bout to head over to other music to wait in line for the Bill Callahan performance. Picked up the Records Toreism LP on Thrill Jockey along with the Pavement LP, the SY 7"s and the Akron/Family single earlier, too, and most of it is really good! I think the Records Toreism comp is probably the best of the lot, although the live Pavement album is really badass too.

I hear what xhuxk is saying. Collector bait is gross and a good half of the folks seemed to be grabbing at it for investment purposes (such as they are). But how else are the stores going to entice The People? Not with dollar records (now, penny records...). And is $12 really all that shocking?

The crowds were bad only at Waterloo but it's easy to wade through record geeks (and oh yeah, they had two copies of the New Order single).

Fwiw, I bought bands I love (and admire in the case of Slayer but the sleeve is nifty) and music I didn't already own. And I bought those various artist LPs for the accompanying zines as much as the music. Most of it was resistible, though. The Pitchfork review is hilarious cuz nothing is highly recommended.

i spent a hundred buxx today on records, but i bought them at an antique store.

i thought i might be able to open my little store by today, but real life intruded. the space we were in - that was pretty cheap - turned out to be too cheap. there are several cheap apartments above it, and one day some dude's toilet overflowed in his bathroom upstairs and it totally came raining down thru the ceiling into our store and on our stuff! ewwwww. luckily, there wasn't a ton of damage, but some records got wet and we promptly starting looking for another space. and we found a great one. right on main street. and it's bigger. and it has a huuuuuge DRY basement for storage. so, we are moving our stuff there at the end of this month. we feel like we dodged a bullet. our landlords at the old space didn't even care that toilet water had come raining down into our store. our new landlord is spending thousands of bucks renovating before we move in. we're excited.

Went to Music Saves in Cleveland, picked up the Pavement LP, the Sonic Youth 7"s, Camera Obscura, Jenny Lewis, and the Beastie's "Paul's Boutique" remaster on 180g vinyl, plus Black Keys and Blitzen Trapper for a friend of mine. Seemed like nobody there was buying the Jesus Lizard, but lots were buying the Stooges.

went to 1-2-3-4-GO! records in oakland, got the pavement LP (colored edition! 1/95 total! total luck.), the jesus lizard 7"s, the obits 7", the arthur russell LPs (on now, so good!), the sonik youth splits (both sonic youth songs are ehhh, jay r and beck sides are v v good). gf got camera obscura and a pavement LP, then we hit down at lulu's, i got charles manson's LIE, the kinks' VGPS, surfer rosa, and one of those golden triangle 7"s. then our friend's car broke down. :( then we walked into berkeley and hit half-price books, and i got god bless the kinks, some random 1987 sleeping bag records 12" for 25 cents, and a book abt african music by francis bebey.

seems like the Pavement thing was THEEE vaunted item of the day. everything else could pretty much be easily found, at least here in Chi-town. but, whoo, that Pavement LP --- the folks wanted that one!

fun day. arrived when the store opened, bought fever ray vinyl & jesus lizard singles, store owners saved me a jay reatard/SY and then gave it to me, received huge grab bag full of various samplers and singles they were giving out, played some music, ate a bunch of pizza, and hung out the rest of day w/ friends while various other local bands played. A+ day. also bought 10 albums in the 50 cent bin that looked semi-promising. heard the bjork album but only a couple tracks from the others

Milton, man, I really want to see that Voice Crack thing .. was it discounted at all? I mean, I will surely buy it eventually .. just curious if there was a 'record store day' deal. The one time I saw Voice Crack remains one of those top 20 or 25 shows :)

what's the deal w/ the Joplin thing? He supposed to be a good interpreter?

$10 used promo copy but it's going for $16 new just about everywhere... I've seen it before, it is one amazing DVD, I envy you getting to actually see them

my favorite Joplin is the Rifkin because that's the one I grew up with, but I'm looking for other performances and the Morath was repped by a friend. it's aiming for period arrangements, piano banjo & guitar, more lively than Rifkin who plays him like spacey Bach I'm loving it so far.

i stopped by two of my local record stores today. i guess i got there too late for the best of the record store day stuff (i hit my first store around noon). honestly i was mostly reminded how dull the local stores are. stock always seems to be the same, half of the time i look for something offbeat (even a new release) they're unlikely to have it.

though granted i'm a bit jaded as far as record stores are concerned. if i could find a record store that carried lots of used congolese LPs, i'd be excited.

bought mostly older stuff today... the newest album i picked up was tokyo police club's elephant shell (for $5.99). not that interested in most of the RSD "exclusives" but perhaps i'll poke around tomorrow and see if i can find the pavement thing.

Established last year with the intention of celebrating the unique culture of independently owned record stores, the event has turned slightly political this year with the involvement of the Australian Music Retailers' Association. As Australia's larger chains such as JB Hi-Fi, Sanity and Virgin are aligned with the group, the AMRA was informed they could not participate with Record Store Day celebrations because the event is held specifically for indie stores.

Instead, AMRA have announced Record Store Day Australia will also be held this Saturday, which the indies argue diverts attention from their event.

As a result, most big chains and indies will host events over the weekend.

As my partner said - JB HiFi? EVERY day is record store day for them, they have tons of customers, they dont NEED any promotion!

I wanted to boycott the store in Barkly st (PurePop?) because my bf wrote them an email asking to do a gig there, which they'd been positive about. Until he mentioned the fact he'd like to start his own cafe cum record store/book store, and the guy replied with 'well that what every loser wants to try' with no other comment. Ugh!?

We wandered in to Jerry's Records in Pittsburgh, quite by accident :) thinking Record Store Day had already passed. Husb. got 3 45s of the Tornadoes/Telstar, one label of which he didn't already have...I just wandered around and browsed.

I have never bought a record, tape or a DVD/CD in my life. I have had a few bought for me but I refuse to give these so-called pop stars/singers any of my money. There is the radio for listening to music and that is as far as I take it.

I know of people who spend £40-£50 per month on music - quite frankly they are such sad people.

I have never even been to a music concert nor downloaded any music on the web. My money is for ME and not for others to live like lords on it.

The record store where I work is having lunch together today to come up with what to do special for this year's RSD. Last year we had a blast, ate pizza, had dj's play outside and drank beers. This year, the tattoo shop next door is giving out free tattoos of the 45 adapter. What are your stores doing?

We're grilling outside I think like we did last year--free hot dogs, burgers, potato chips etc while supplies lasts. last year we gave away grab bags of old dollar records & 50c 45s. lots of exclusive crap from labels etc.. we should try to have a band play i guess?? but it will probably be too busy/crowded to make that feasible.

So, in the UK, Blur are releasing their first single for *ages*, The Beatles are reissuing Paperback Writer, and there are repressings for the first Bloc Party album, and there's an Amorphous Adrogynous remix 12" of Paul Weller.

So, in the UK, Blur are releasing their first single for *ages*, The Beatles are reissuing Paperback Writer, and there are repressings for the first Bloc Party album, and there's an Amorphous Adrogynous remix 12" of Paul Weller.

I don't care about the event itself much but I guess I care about the fact it genuinely seems to get people through the doors and increases revenue for an institution I like. Even if it is kinda ridic that you now need a bunch of carrots to get people to bring themselves to visit a damn record store

Is there any limit on how much of this stuff you're allowed to buy if you do turn up in time? I wd quite like the Pavement thing and the Neu! and Harmonia things, and maybe the Fall thing which I know a friend will want a copy of anyway, and and and. But it may look kind of vulgar to buy armfuls of it.

(There are like 60 Muse things which I will not be buying, however. Plus I've no idea how much they're going to jack up the prices for this stuff, don't really plan to spend more than a fiver on a single even if it is rare and fancy etc, esp not if I have the tracks already)

PS I hope to go and haven't been to a record shop in ages, but this is because I'm in the slightly weird situation of being in a city which doesn't have a record shop while a tiny market town an hour's bus ride away apparently still has one. Which I went to a couple of times and the content was mostly former Pop Idol contestants etc but I did get myself that Wire On The Box DVD cheap, presumably because most of its customers had no idea who Wire were.

Anyway I do keep meaning to go back but the bus ride costs as much as the postage to order records online and there's nothing else to do there so I've been lazy.

i wish i wasn't such a party pooper and cared about this thing. but i don't. every day is record store day! but i'm sure it is fun for people less misanthropic than me. and that's nice.

― scott seward, Monday, April 12, 2010 2:48 PM

We just act like it is a holiday and have a big store party, so it is pretty fun even though we are surrounded by records every day of our lives. Also, we make about ten times as much money that day as we do any other day, so it keeps our doors open.

I didn't participate last year because I think I had bought a huge amount of stuff like a week before and couldn't afford to do anything. This year I'm just going to get two 12"s I've passed on in the past since they'll be on sale. I've heard that it has reminded people of record shopping in the days before napster, etc. which is something I hope will be the case.

I've only got one participating store I can hit up tomorrow because just about every retail place that sells cds either is a chain store (and F.Y.E.s are going under all over the place here), or closes at 7 pm. :/

So I decided to check out the documentary I Need That Record - streaming on P4k right now & the opening shot is a pan of my hometown favorite shop, Encore Records in Ann Arbor, which was planning on stopping by tomorrow anyway! If u live in NYC, LA etc, I guess it is par for the course when that kind of stuff happens, but not so much out here in the rust belt.

I don't understand why they don't do their best efforts to market the CD instead of marketing music on obsolete formats from the 80s or earlier. More than anything else, the existance of the record store depends on people's willingness to buy CDs rather than downloading mp3's.

i'll probably skip record store day altogether. the stores around here need to do more to earn my business, anyway. selling the same used CDs that were on the shelves six years ago for the same cost isn't going to keep me coming around, sorry.

Kill the shipping companies and distributors - even though my fave 'Permanent Records' in Chicago opened for RSD at midnight for two hours - they had very little of the 'heavy hitter exclusives' - dude pulling my items just kept sayin' 'never got it in' as we went down my request list ... bummer ... means I get to go to more stores today ...

the vibe at my local record store was great, no queue, just a loose amorphous bundle of people waiting at the front door. the guys who run it came out ten minutes before they opened and gave us all candy.

picked up the mountain goats film by rian johnson, it's v. classy looking.

Couldn't make it in the end, plans had been made for me to be somewhere else w/o telling me. Sounds like the tiny smalltown record shop I was heading for would've had very few of the rarities I was interested in anyway, though I think they promised raffles and discounts so I'd hoped to check those out.

Would be interested to know how it went here - can understand big city shops being rammed, but round here? I'll see if I can find anyone who went to ask.

I went to my local record shop for the first time in about a year. There was a shit band playing and a load of old men filling the place up watching them. I couldn't move, couldn't look through the racks, and the RSD exclusives were all right at the front where the band was, where I couldn't get to. I stood there for 25 minutes waiting for the band to finish so I could, y'know, shop. but they didn't, so I walked out empty handed.

Yep, swung by the local shop this morning and couldn't even get in the door so I came away empty-handed as well. Ah well, I go there once or twice a week anyway so I'll continue to support them. Just not today, apparently.

Totally want that Soft Machine thing, but not really into anything that is being released in the US, that since that isn't, well, crap. Kinda crossing my fingers for the store having some discount Nilsson available...

Reactionary Records is where I'm going, in East Atlanta. I've never been but my friends band is playing there (Facehugger) and I want to check it out. Atlanta has a good deal of local record stores; since Tower closed down, it's actually been more difficult to find a chain music shop. Closest you can get is Best Buy.

Alice Cooper Life & Crimes box set, deluxe version of Atlantic Crossing and 2-CD Stylistics best-of, all for 40 bucks...not a bad haul, but not quite as good as last year, when I got the 8-CD Black Sabbath box for about 25 bucks...

Sooo I went to the place near me that came up on the RSD page which I had previously thought was a local version of a "Hard-Rock Cafe" type eatery (Bus St0p C4fe in P1tm4n NJ), BUT it turns out that they have a lot of vinyls there! At a %15 RSD Discount no less! I got:

Skipping Record Store Day altogether, but I can be found in record stores at least 2-3x a week anyway -- I'm not the type that needs to be dragged there for ltd. ed. vinyl or anything. I'd rather not weather the crowds, it seems like shopping on Black Friday for music.

I did order the Devo CD reissue from Amazon for $10.99 -- think it's 3,000 copies or so?

Would pick up the Mtn Goats DVD if I had the will to go shopping. Will check Monday, and assuming it's all out of stock (likely) then I'll just pick up a used copy sometime in the coming years, when I happen to find it.

I went to Phonica in London around 3pm. The Ltd edition stuff had mostly sold, not that I was keen for it. Then, I went to JB's on Hanway St. but couldn't decide so left empty handed. Apparently the dreadful Rough Trade East was busy.

I did not, I thought there was new stuff on it but it is the same as the 2LP/CD that already came out.

I went to like 4 places in Seattle (Wall Of Sound, Sonic Boom, Easy Street, Everyday Music). Got the Bitchin Bajas/Moon Duo split, the Fall 7", and a buncha other non-RSD things. Nowhere I went was mobbed but all the places were busy with lines at the registers.

so i went, hit may fave shops -- didn't make, like "AN EFFORT" of this idea -- just figgered I'd hit the same shops I always hit every week or so. Check in with them and see how things were going.

Have to say, this particular "event" seemed WAY more over-subscribed than last year. Could barely even get in to the Reckless Records in the Loop in Chicago. It was completely wall-to-wall (and it's obviously just a small little hole-in-the-wall to begin with)

The funny thing is that I'm watching it today, and found that one of the guys interviewed in Vinyl is one of the guys I ran into at Record Store Day just yesterday. Know a few of the other characters in the movie too from my days wandering around the various stores in Toronto.

One of the record stores I stopped by said RSD was an enormous pain in the ass where you have to order all the "special" vinyl months in advance and then get don't get two-thirds of what you actually ordered

I didn't get into record store day because I was at the footy but I know I would have not got anything I was wanting anyway and would be a £4 train fare down. Stupid idea to limit everything so much, no-one gets what they want and everything ends up on eBay, seriously, fuck this shit. I'll do my record shopping in my own time.

tbh Mark, I woulda been happy just to get the Soundgarden 7". But I knew i wouldn't even get that. It was silly to have things so limited. Whats the point of getting in people, who regularly shop there anyway, to come in for a ltd ed record , not get it, so go home pissed off rather than buying something they can get anytime in it's place? They should make enough for all, not the scum who buy just to eBay it.

Our store had so much fun yesterday and I am suffering a hang over. We didn't get half the exclusives we ordered, but we generally just act like it is a party day. Great bands. Too many hotdogs. So much beer. Cops came but left us alone. Another successful year!

We have two extra Moby Grapes at the store right now, btw. Who wants 'em?

I went, although not particularly to buy anything limited edition, just cuz I'm always there. Took me about 30 minutes to get through the line, I got a free t-shirt and a free burrito coupon at Chipotle (which I didn't get around to using).

Ultimately one year there are going to be deaths when two skinheads fight over the limited edition Anal Cunt reunion 7"

Haw. I just called our store and Nate said the exact same thing. Morning after record store day is like tumbleweeds and crickets. Maybe he should tap into the leftover beer and hot dogs to give himself a kickstart. or start hoarding our leftover exclusives and considering Ebay (j/k).

No, the staff didn't get them all. One Flaming Lips LP went to staff, none of the others mentioned did at all.

If you'd actually got up & into town & queued up outside before the 9am opening then yes you would have got a Blur 7'' and a Flaming Lips LP. If you were amongst the first 10 people or so in the shop then you would have got a Soundgarden. Otherwise probably not. Getting people into the actual shop to spend money was pretty much the point of the day.

Totally want that Soft Machine thing, but not really into anything that is being released in the US, that since that isn't, well, crap. Kinda crossing my fingers for the store having some discount Nilsson available...

Reactionary Records is where I'm going, in East Atlanta. I've never been but my friends band is playing there (Facehugger) and I want to check it out. Atlanta has a good deal of local record stores; since Tower closed down, it's actually been more difficult to find a chain music shop. Closest you can get is Best Buy.

I went to Jumbo in Leeds around midday - got the self-titled Squirrel Bait EP and the reissue of Gray Matter's Take It Back, didn't particularly have my eye on any of the limited edition stuff. Good to see the place so busy, lots of people buying interesting-looking things, hope people go back soon.

The increase in foot traffic was reflected in Nielsen SoundScan's weekly charts. Muratore said SoundScan tabulated 573,000 sales at indie outlets this week, compared with 568,000 during the week of Record Store Day in 2009. While no album sold more than 100,000 copies this week, overall album sales were up 3%, and chain outlets saw a 7% gain, said Muratore.

The overall week-to-week gain in album sales could lead one to conclude that Record Store Day is fueling sales at all music retailers, even those not stocked with exclusive content. The sales promotion has become such a nationally recognized event that it was even referenced on "Saturday Night Live."

"It’s just too bad this kind of thing can’t happen all the time, where you get people really excited to go to physical stores and pore over records," said Billboard's chart guru, Keith Caulfield.

"It’s just too bad this kind of thing can’t happen all the time, where you get people really excited to go to physical stores and pore over records," said Billboard's chart guru, Keith Caulfield.― Bee OK, Wednesday, April 21, 2010 10:29 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Only things I was really excited about were the Fela and Fahey records, neither of which I managed to find. Then again, I didn't try all that hard. Did pick up a Trouble In Mind 7" covers comp w Ty Segall doing Seger + Cococoma the Wipers, plus a Happy Birthday (ex-King Tuff) single I haven't listened to yet. Eh. At least it was cheap.

it's so sad that they can't do this more than once a year. would be so great if record companies could release cool exclusives every week, like maybe on Tuesdays. or even do a special 're-release' if one of them ever sells out its pressing. dare to dream.

it's so sad that they can't do this more than once a year. would be so great if record companies could release cool exclusives every week, like maybe on Tuesdays. or even do a special 're-release' if one of them ever sells out its pressing. dare to dream.

There was a program last summer called "Vinyl Saturday", where one Saturday a month was packed w/exclusives ala RSD. I don't think it even lasted the whole summer.

Yet one of the most sought-after Record Store Day titles wasn't even released in the U.S. -- a new single from long dormant Brit-pop band Blur. The act's "Fool's Day" was limited to 1,000 copies, and exclusive to U.K. outlets. It's also going for more than $100 on eBay.

"Every one asked for Blur," Levin noted. His Atlanta store had more than 200 people in line by 9 a.m., he said, and he bested last year's sales total by 4 p.m. Levin said participating stores had been instructed not to sell the items on eBay or in advance of the event. Those that did, he said, "are done," and will not be allowed to participate next year.

Audio Fidelity, the US company that remastered Kate’s Hounds of Love album last year (in a popular gatefold vinyl edition) is releasing a limited edition 4-track 10″ vinyl Hounds of Love EP, with tracks chosen by Kate, on April 16th. Pressed on pink vinyl, Side 1 features The Big Sky and Cloudbusting and Side 2 features Watching You Without Me and Jig of Life. Audio Fidelity tell me that Kate also personally selected the cover art. Click on the image to go to the Audio Fidelity site for more info. This release is to coincide with Record Store Day 2011. Support your local independent record shop!

In 1979, the Bad Brains left for New York City. In December, the band recorded a debut 45 on their own label ("Pay To Cum" b/w "Stay Close To Me"), which was later included on the widely distributed Let Them Eat Jellybeans compilation LP. The first pressing of the "Pay To Cum" 7in. lists two separate Maryland addresses (one on the label, a different "Fan Club" address on the sleeve) indicating that the ties to DC weren't completely severed. The band would later repress the single in New York City and issue it without a picture sleeve (red & tan labels instead of the brown & white of the first pressing).

I near swear my local record shop just HAD their Nat'l Record Day back in October... anyone know what other events could've possibly of happened? I didn't actually attend the thing, hence why I'm not so sure it was NRD.

Nationally-recognized music store LOONEY TUNES is pleased to participate in Record Store Day on Saturday, April 16th, 2011. LOONEY TUNES is located at 31 Brookvale Avenue in West Babylon, NY and will be open on April 16th from 10am-9pm ET. Special VIP members will be permitted to enter the store at 9am. If you are not a LOONEY TUNES VIP member already, you can become one by heading to this link.

LOONEY TUNES will be offering many special deals including over 250 exclusive CD and LP releases, several band performances, free contests and giveaways and much more! Beer will be served at the store by Brickhouse Brewery of Patchogue, NY. Make sure to head to this link to check up on band performance line-ups and exclusive titles being added every day! There you can download a file of all of the titles available with estimated prices. Any product left over after 9:05pm on April 16th will be posted for sale on the website immediately.

Band performances will begin at 2pm on April 16th and as of now will feature Hotel of the Laughing Tree, Tiger Riot, Grace Read, Alex Skolnick, Thursday, and Kevin Devine. All performances are free except for Thursday and Kevin Devine which will require the purchase of merchandise/music by the artist. In addition, Alex Skolnick will be giving a guitar clinic and signing copies of his new release, Veritas, and Thursday will be offering an autograph signing of No Devolucion to pre-order purchasers through LOONEY TUNES.

There's a 12" split with Puffy Areolas & Purling Hiss that I need more than any of the others.

Aaahhh this sounds awesome but I am pretty sure my local shop will not be getting this one! In fact I'm guessing whatever they get will be some shitty British landfill indie, 2 copies each, gone by 9:15am.

(Tho I don't think I've actually put any vinyl on since I moved here almost 2 years ago, so, I suppose it could find a better home to go to)

I live just a block from Metro! I make Chicago references now and then. I might have even emailed to see if you were going to some show a while back.

Yeah, you did email me! My ilx is still tied to an old email address I hardly ever check, so I didn't even see it until like a month after you sent it... and by that point I felt stupid to even write you back.

I think the only thing I REALLY want this year is the Wild Flag 7", but I pretty much hate going into local stores on Record Store Day because they are so crowded with people that aren't really into shopping and not fun at all to browse in. I think I feel about these days kinda like hardcore drinkers must feel about amateur night on NYE.

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad these days exist to give shops a shot in the arm to help stay afloat, but they just are more of a chore than anything else.

I just like to encourage the normal folk to at least go once this damn year, and sure, buy that Foo Fighters. I haven't liked their stuff, but Grohl does promise it'll be "bitchin'" and as good as Back In Black, The Black Album and Nevermind, so who am I to say otherwise!

I can sympathize w/ the distaste for crowds but w/ such a concentrated group of ppl in one place w/ one interest it really, I think, makes for good fare. It's fun being able to meet other ppl & talk about what they just copped or whatever such (everyone's enthusiasm is just BRIMMING on RSD). Crowds are much less fun on Xmas day at say, Target, or so (obviously) as it's just a clusterfuck of married couples, but RSD I almost equate to going to something like a city-wide concert... just a lot of dudes real passionate about what they're buying.

I'm going for the dollar sale on vinyl and CDs that no one cares about (except me, apparently), and my friend's band is playing. Unfortunately, My Morning jacket will be at my local store signing autographs and 'hanging out,' so I'm expecting a mob scene.

Guess I won't be taking part this year. My local shop decided to open at midnight tonight to start selling the special stuff. I can't possibly make it tonight, but they're already warning that most exclusives will be sold out by the time they open at 10 on Saturday. I mean, thats cool to throw a kind of "party" to celebrate, but, I don't know, kind of pissed that now I can't be there.

I seem to recall people lining up at midnight at Tower Records for the latest major label shit that you could buy anywhere. I wonder what the last album was that had people lining up at midnight? "No Strings Attached?"

I assumed that with the special Big Star test pressing issues, the test pressing would be in addition to the regular new disk. If someone gets the test pressing they're not gonna play it like a regular disk, right? It's a collectable. And they can't go back and buy another copy because there won't be any left.

I'm a big Wussy fan. I got a Facebook wall post yesterday that they're making an acoustic redo of Funeral Dress available for National Record Store Day. There was an in-person way to get it, and some site where you were supposed to be able to order it. Except I tried the site and it wouldn't load.

Thanks to everyone who has pointed out ebay auctions to us. We really DO understand and share your frustration over how much this sucks. And we do take action where we can, especially if we find a store doing it: Time Traveler was doing it, we forced a take-down, and are putting them on public notice.

There are currently 422 auctions of RSD items; sellers include cameroncam, Apexrecords, Music_Millenium, Monster Music and Movies...some people just don't get it; they let their personal greed spoil it for others...check out the prices that cameroncam is charging...someone shove a 12" LP down his throat, please!20 hours ago

Just ventured down to my local vinyl shop to see what they were gonna have and they mentioned that NO ONE was gonna be getting the Big Star, but perhaps that's just no one in Canada. Dang! If anyone knows different let me know I guess.

The local classic rock station last week did a countdown of what they called the 100 greatest classic rock albums of all time. The fun aspect to this otherwise rote exercise was that most albums were celebrated with a spin of an entire album side - that is, actually LPs, pops and hiss and all. (The top 10 or so got the whole album played). And, boy, did that vinyl sound great coming from the car speakers, so much better than the sound of all the other stations. It's probably the clearest the difference has ever been to my ears, and for a split second I suddenly felt like replacing all my CDs with vinyl.

Thanks to a fortuitous change in plans, I was able to hit up my local for the midnight sale. About 25 people in line ahead of me when I got there at 11:50. I'd say about 60 total.

I was able to get the Wild Flag and Akron Family things I wanted, but all of the others I was hoping for were gone (Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Opeth). Really wanted the Big Star, but they didn't get any in either, I'm wondering if something got fucked up or the distribution was very limited.

I had fun and got a couple things I wanted, but it kind of bummed me out because the first four dudes in line (who were camped out in folding chairs) each bought over $400 worth of stuff. I mean, if they really are hardcore record fans cool, but judging from their conversation on the way out the door they were clearly intending to dump it all on eBay immediately and that kinda sucks.

Not sure if I'm going to take part next year, just too much waiting in line to get less than half of the stuff I wanted.

i think that dummy piece is off point. i buy 90% of my music online as i'm rarely home to go buy locally (so am a bit of a hypocrite) but my local record shops are an important part of my local community and that's worth celebrating. if there was a fish shop day i'd try and support that as the homogenisation of our high streets is so depressing.

jon - were you at Permanent too? - I was about 25 people deep in the line and I was a bit bummed to see the white stripes singles sittin' on the counter and gone by the time I got there. Luckily, I'm in there every weekend and Lance and Dave, etc. know what I like and were able to guide me to some good stuff not on my list (the Scientists 45, the numero group pressed at bodie lp) and graciously explain that they didn't get a lot in - they're supposed to get more in a shipment today - may make a second trip as I want the GBV tribute and a few other things ...

i understand that the ltd edition thing is a real motivator for lazy music nerds to go out shopping, but really don't get why the labels don't press at least enough for those interested to be able to buy them ON RECORD STORE DAY

herb albert OTM. There are so many ultra-limited things for RSD, and a very big chance that the customers that actually shop at these stores regularly through the rest of the year will never ever lay eyes on them, let alone hands or cash. Is it really THAT hard to press a few more of these things so that people that actually DO support the industry don't get the shaft?

That Dummy piece was pretty measured I think. Seen a lot of dumb things written re record store day from both ends of it. I don't think most people who get excited about record store day and like buying records are thinking, "Why can't all those assholes who like mp3s get into this?" It's not "This is the way it should be," it's "I think this is fun." Physical objects are never coming back in any real mass-market way, and that's fine. But some people will continue to enjoy them-- so let 'em.

Re: limited runs, they sort of have to be limited runs, don't they? I mean, almost nothing unique to RSD is unavailable, per se. I can buy Big Star's Third, or Beady Eye, or whatever. It's just a matter of the special packaging, which more or less demands limited runs. 7" boxed sets, that Beach Boys 78 ... I can't imagine most of these more or less vanity pressings can be done on a much larger scale without costing too much. But maybe I'm wrong.

that and the television live thing were the big items at my store...really lucky to have gotten big star.

people are weird, was sad to see ppl passing up like sweet rough guide world music and mississippi john hurt records for fuckin' foo fighters rarities and shit. oh well.

i'm gonna go to another store this afternoon after the mania dies down, my friend said they had like a dozen arthur russell left when he was in and had to leave because the UPS truck had arrived with the P.O.S./William Elliott Whitmore split and ppl went bonkers and shit.

does anyone know if that Country Joe & the Fish record is cool? it's supposed to be "underrated" "weird" etc....that'll totally still be there for a while

dave (bless his heart) didn't realize that the fucked up album everyone was asking for was actually the David's Town comp sitting right there on the shelf. of course I didn't let him know til I secured my copy

think i woulda picked up the fahey if i'd seen it.i got the big star. anyone who's fretting because they didn't, don't worry, you don't need a version of third that's sequenced so that thank you friends segues into holocaust.

fun, anyway. nice seeing people bopping around with copies of world of echo and stuff.

you don't need a version of third that's sequenced so that thank you friends segues into holocaust.ha yeah, i keep looking at the test pressing tracklisting and thinking, "no, that's WRONG." even though it might be technically right.

I went CD shopping this morning, forgetting it was Record Store Day. Jackpot Records, in Portland, had a line going around the whole inside of the store. There were so many people there it made it literally impossible to browse. So I ended up leaving without buying anything. Everyday Music, which opens an hour before Jackpot, didn't have nearly as many people so I shopped there. Didn't even check the RSD specials to see what they had left over.

I went to the four big stores in Seattle. I couldn't believe all the people buying the Fleet Foxes/Foo Fighters, etc. Got a couple things that I really wanted, but just missed out on those two White Stripes 7".

Once again it was an amazing day for us. We had about 250 of the UK special releases for sale and had 11 bands playing over the course of the day and everything went fantastically well. I've just got home now, quite happily squiffy and tired. Keep buying records everyone, please.

xpost yeah that show had been on bootleg forever, but the bootleg sounded terrible...super muddy. when rhino put it out i couldn't believe how great it sounded. nice to hear crystal clear separation between lloyd/verlaine.

In the end my haul was the Television set, the Fucked Up, Superchunk on vinyl, grabbed the Foos (largely to irritate a coworker who loves the Foos but doesn't have a turntable), the Daft Tron 10", the gold Bad Brains 7", Steve Earle 7", VU 7", Roxy Music 7", and the two Grinderman 12"ers.

Wanted the Kate Bush (but it had sold out before I got there, at the one store that seemed to get 'em), and the Joan Jett (which I missed by like 2 minutes). Only other thing I missed, I think, was the Big Star. Oh well.

I really want a Hormoaning but im not paying ebay prices. Fuck the labels for making everything so limited. Record shops are there for more than 1 day a year. What about the rest of us who do go to record shops when we can?

If there was a shop in my town I'd gladly buy there unfortunately both shops are looong gone, but a lot of stuff I'm into I need to buy direct from labels/bands. But as Krakow knows, i try to get into town when I can. I would rather support local shops. And everyone of the shops I go to agrees that things shouldn't be so limited. But no-one listens.

got the numero comp "burned at boddies" plus a numero compliation CD called "an alternate history of popular music". can't find any info anywhere on the second ... no idea if this is something limited or if it is a preview of something coming out later this year ... the only reference i found to it is here.

many x-posts - limiting copies on physical music purchases is a bad idea; punishes the regular customers who may not show up first thing in the morning. What record labels should do is print more but limit it as a one-day sale or something. They can just mark it up enough to make up for the cost of having a few leftovers. Just a thought.

i think it's a fun idea? i guess? hyping one day and making it an event. when was the last time ANY record store was an event destination? so, it works anyway. as far as "regular customers" go, they should get their fat asses out of bed or stay home. they can go a day late and get all the crap that nobody wanted.

Ok, but limiting it as they do, it seems that a lot of music stores aren't even making these things availbable to customers anyway; they're just selling it on ebay the day before RSD (according to your post upthread at least - I avoided Music Millenium today after reading from you that they were hawking shit on Ebay a day before it was available to the public, etc.

yeah, i mean, i think everyone sees it as a way to make money. customers and store owners and everyone. welcome to america. it's not some perfect system. its a way to hype stores! and if people get greedy, well, welcome to america. wait, i already said that...

Heard that some folks are in the habit of buying and selling desirable discs they're not interested in to subsidize their purchase of tons of stuff they are interested in. Don't know what I think about that. I also heard that My Morning Jacket kindly requested that fans buy just one of the three special pressings or whatever, should fans come across all three for sale. Though of course my fave shop told me one dude inevitably came in and eagerly bought all three.

see that kinda thing is just some sorta pie in the sky crazy. you are in a STORE!!! that SELLS STUFF. just buy one to be nice? seems crazy. maybe on dischord records day. i know some stores limit what some people can buy and that's up to them. but come on its for sale and has a price tag on it!

yeah, i mean, i think everyone sees it as a way to make money. customers and store owners and everyone. welcome to america. it's not some perfect system. its a way to hype stores! and if people get greedy, well, welcome to america. wait, i already said that...

I agree with what your saying. I always thought one purpose of Record Store Days would be to reward people who still gave a shit about buying phsyical releases a way to buy somewhat limited releases that day; I just feel that the current selection is too limited on that day, but again, I'm not a collector.

It might hurt the cause if it is too limited, yes, but van smack is right. the whole point is to boost activity and excitement in your record store. It is a great way to get casual shoppers into the store, then use the occasion to do some heavy shopping for non RSD items as well.

I've been following this thread with interest, so I went down to Toronto's Sonic Boom (the Scott Pilgrim store) at about 7:00 tonight. I realized within 30 seconds that this is not really my thing. My whole life from 1975 up till 1995 was searching for great record deals; SB had their usual expensive stuff, and maybe some of it was special and limited-release, but I've just never been one to pay a lot for albums. I'm about halfway between this thread and xhuxk's dollar-vinyl thread; "I found this really great album from 1978 in mint condition, and it was only $6!" is about where I sit. (Best thing about the trip was that they were playing "That's When I Reach for My Revolver" over the sound system.)

Since clemenza brings it up, here's what I wrote two years ago (with a couple typos corrected), which I still agree with:

I buy loads of records in thrift stores and garage sales, so maybe I am part of the problem. Usually they are way cheaper and more interesting in those places. But I'm still not partaking in this event today. Maybe that makes me lame. Independent stores deserve to survive, and I hope setting aside a special day for them pulls lots of young kids into the habit -- especially kids pointlessly addicted to getting music the day it comes out, a habit that has never made any sense to me. But braving the crowds seems silly. And I've never been somebody to buy records just because they're rare -- especially when they're created for the sole purpose of their rarity. Seems artificial to me somehow, and none of the records above strike me as all that enticing. (I thought something similar when baseball card companies got self-conscious about their collectability, and it bugged me then, too. Not that it's especially anything new with record labels -- see also: SubPop Singles Club or whatever.) Anyway, more power to the stores -- whatever pulls in customers. I hope they all make tons of money. A friend of mine who runs a store in Philly said Record Store Day last year was his best day in years, and I hope this year he does even better.

xhuxk's where I'm at, in essence, and I might have already said it. Were it not for the fact I was helping friends move all day yesterday I would have likely swung down to a nearby store I know run by a good guy who's been doing this for twenty years in two locations and picked up something, but it would have been just something random in the used section, where I normally look anyway.

Actually (having come to my senses during a morning bike ride just now), I should amend one thing I said in that post -- I don't really think garage sales and thrift stores (or library-overrun stores or guys' houses who put signs up on the street or twice-a-year record conventions) necessarily usually have more interesting selections or even cheaper prices than record stores -- That was just stupid; I obviously go to record stores all the time, way too much probably, to sift through 50-cent bins, dollar bins, even two-dollar bins if I'm feeling especially reckless. It is one of my favorite things to do in the world. I just don't relate at all, though, to the mindset that says have you have to pay ridiculous sucker-bait Record Store Day kinds of prices to find interesting music. That makes no sense to me. And I also don't relate at all to the collector's mentality where you buy records just to resell them, rather than listen to them -- In fact, I barely ever get around to re-selling records at all, even though I've probably got some really collectible stuff on my shelves. That's my problem. But Record Store Day still strikes me as the one day of the year I'd rather not be in record stores, just like New Year's Eve is the last night of the year I'd want to go out drinking. But like I said, I still hope my friends who run stores (hi Scott!) made lots of money yesterday, and maybe reeled in a couple new regular customers who won't wait another 365 days before they visit again.

I bought a CD yesterday - I was in Target on other errands and grabbed the new Radiohead because I happened to see it out of the corner of my eye and it was $10. But I don't own a turntable, so buying limited edition vinyl rarities (most of which are by bands I hate anyway) is out of the question.

xp That said, I did hit Breakaway Records for a few minutes yesterday (since I was at the coffee shop next door anyway) and picked up a 1988 LP by Da Krash for a dollar. The store was way busier than usual, but not insanely. It was kind of cool that I wasn't the only shopper there, for a change. But I really had no interest in checking out what was going on at Waterloo or Antone's, which are way less out-of-the-way, location-wise.

i had a decent day yesterday. even without selling the record store day stuff. and we had a fun show last night. dancing around drunk with the members of the flaming dragons of middle earth to prince's purple rain album was probably the highlight of my day. and it didn't have anything to so with selling records.

i sold country records and movie soundtracks and rock and jazz and funk and classical records yesterday. even a conlon nancarrow album of avant garde piano rolls! so i was happy. i was foo fighters-free.

sold the cruising soundtrack. and the warriors soundtrack. CAN YOU DIG IT!!!!???? (met a guy who works at stop & shop and he said "hey, your boy is named cyrus? so is my son! we named him after cyrus in the warriors." thought that was so cool.)

I wanted to buy the Thrill Jockey records (black twig pickers/glenn jones split, the Phil Manley/Guitarist from Earthless "Norcal Values" thing, and the Liturgy/Oval split), but I couldn't find any of them anywhere :(

we at least have the glenn jones/black twigs and "norcal values" still available, maybe the liturgy record as well. if you still want 'em you can e-mail me and I can figure somethin out dr dot carl dot sagan at gmail dotcom

my overall RSD haul (i went to a few different stores over the weekend): sonic youth live thing, vanguard psych thing, mute compilation. thing i wanted that nobody had: the oxbow king of the jews reissue: http://tinyurl.com/3o28p7d

Can anybody speak to the relative profit margin of LPs versus CDs? I've noticed a lot of records now sell for $20, $25 and even up to $45—granted for deluxe, multiple-LP editions, but still. I'm wondering how much the extra mark-up on LPs is offsetting the general decline in music sales.

There is no innate difference in profit margin for stores between vinyl and CD. We do find that there is more leeway in terms of what customers will pay for a nicely done piece of vinyl compared to CDs, but any difference in mark-up that we choose to try and make is only very slight.

There is a lot of new & reissue vinyl available in the $10-15 range; though some folks opt for excessive and lavish packaging, it's not something that's ever going to become the industry standard. there are many people who just won't pay $25 for a single LP just because it's in a heavy-stock jacket.

Yeah, I bought the new Weedeater for $17 while I was out for RSD, but kind of disappointed in the packaging. I mean, its Southern Lord, so its not awful, but there wasn't a whole lot to it. Wish they'd included a digital download cose tho.

how much the extra mark-up on LPs is offsetting the general decline in music sales.

Since vinyl constitutes only an infinitesimal fraction of total music sales (albeit a somewhat bigger infinitesimal fraction than a few years ago), even if the mark-up was significant, there's no way it could offset music retail's overall decline. It's just too small a drop in the bucket. (Though for select individual, independent stores where vinyl actually sells, it might make a difference.)

like it's ridiculous to see ppl paying huge bucks for weirdo garage reissues and then say this brand new amazing Michael Yonkers/Blind Shake record is readily available for $10 on 180g with MP3 download

i don't actually know what it costs to press 500 or more records and have full cover art, etc. its more than a cd costs to make obviously. it was nice in the 90's to get a new full-length on vinyl for ten bucks and know that the cd was gonna cost you 15 or more. felt like a bargain. hardly anyone was buying new vinyl in the 90's. which was great in the 2000's cuz lotsa 90's vinyl could be sold for a ton cuz nobody bought it back then and the pressings weren't very big.

would have bought all those 2 dollar copies of the dead man soundtrack that 3rd street jazz in philly couldn't give away. (and don't even get me started on the zillion copies of paul's boutique on vinyl that strawberrys in philly had in their dollar bin forever.)

haha maybe not butterglory but yeah big name stuff from the 90s is worth tons...I think 1994 was the lowest production year for vinyl, so like the labels did say, Siamese Dream, in low quantities on vinyl to keep billy feeling cool and shit but yeah i saw that for 90+ at my local shop.

i think about all the prog records and folk records i could have bought in the 90s and weep myself to sleep.

I was at a Fry's today and they had Plant & Krauss-Raising Sand on vinyl (a double) for $14.99. Which I thought was surprising, given most major title vinyl I see is around $30.00. Fry's does mark stuff down, but I guess the price is also low because it doesn't come with an MP3 code or cd, which I think inspires a heavy markup.

Also, one of the important things about some 90s vinyl is that as the format wound down as a consumer format, pressing quality started to dip. I remember my big sister picking up Stevie Ray Vaughan's The Sky Is Crying on vinyl the day of release in '91*. She took it home and put it on only to discover several skips on both sides. She takes it back, gets another one, same problem. She goes back and the store people tell most of the copies they got were similarly screwed up. She gets it on tape and on x-mas 93 we become a CD family. That can't be the only story like this.

*I wanna say this was the last SRV lp released on vinyl stateside for some time.

Since vinyl constitutes only an infinitesimal fraction of total music sales (albeit a somewhat bigger infinitesimal fraction than a few years ago), even if the mark-up was significant, there's no way it could offset music retail's overall decline. It's just too small a drop in the bucket. (Though for select individual, independent stores where vinyl actually sells, it might make a difference.)

xp while i'm sure that the lower quality control on 90s LPs comes from cutting corners to save $$ on a dying format, my conspiracy theory is that major labels purposely made shitty sounding vinyl so CDs sounded better in comparison.

I was buying new vinyl up until 1989 or so when I heard Skylarking on CD for the first time, the difference to the thin-sounding single LP (should have been a double) was like Dorothy opening her door after landing in Oz into a world of technicolor, my then-favorite album was suddenly SO MUCH BETTER.

For anyone who got the Big Star record: does it even sound that much better than other vinyl reissues of Third? I have the Castle pressing from 1987 and it sounds really great, much better than the reissues of the first two Big Star records that I have at home.

The record store I've been referencing, outside Chicago, said the new Pearl Jam vinyl releases have been slow to sell, oddly. They also couldn't find any mention of a New Order single on their various order sheets.

Did anyone get the Beach Boys 78? I also heard about a "Rumors" double 45rpm LP, but that may have been last year.

If anybody wants another chance on some RSD items we've got some left at Tunes in Hoboken. Unless someone picked them up in the past five hours, we've got the live Television record, the psychedelic comp, the Mastodon record, the Flaming Lips box, etc. If you're in the area, call ahead and see what is left tomorrow morning at 11:00.

I think that to buy these releases with the explicit aim of selling them on ebay for your own profit is really bad Adam.

Whatever one thinks of the releases themselves, Record Store Day is aimed at the good cause of trying to keep smaller independent stores alive and to encourage people to visit and rediscover the ones that are still around. For us it is an incredibly important point in the year and to have it compromised like that can only be a bad thing.

yeah big name stuff from the 90s is worth tons...I think 1994 was the lowest production year for vinyl, so like the labels did say, Siamese Dream, in low quantities on vinyl to keep billy feeling cool and shit but yeah i saw that for 90+ at my local shop.

I really wish this day would just focus more on the idea of celebrating the recod store, instead of turning it into collector scum fighting with each other to grab eBay fodder. Like I really enjoy the vibe of the day, especially stores that have fun with it - serving pizza, guest djs, more of a party vibe. But I'm so over the part where its just people scrambling to get stuff they can flip on eBay.

thing is if they did that and scaled back the collectable shit most stores wd take a fraction of what they do on the day under the current 'model'

I'm sure it's galling to know that ppl aren't coming in your store to buy stuff because they want to listen to it, but afaik stores aren't obliged to order all the super desirable stuff if they find it unseemly

I understand why these exclusive things work to get people in the door, but I also kind of feel like a lot of people that come in for that stuff would only come in on that particular day anyway. Its just weird, I like the idea of celebrating record stores like this, I just hate how its evolved.

I'd love to celebrate RSD. But my nearest 'authorised' shop is 2 hours away, and I don't get to travel specifically to outlying shops anymore. And I am by no means miles away from actual cities either.

I think that to buy these releases with the explicit aim of selling them on ebay for your own profit is really bad Adam.

Record Store Day is aimed at the good cause of trying to keep smaller independent stores alive and to encourage people to visit and rediscover the ones that are still around

Yeah but I don't see how this is hurting the record store. Someone who otherwise wouldn't bother going in that day may be spending a good chunk of change on records. What I do with something once I've bought it is my own business.

No, you aren't hurting the store, but you are hurting other fans who would like a fair shot at buying something they really want without paying jacked-up eBay prices. I mean, sure, you can do it, but its kind of a dick move.

Whatever one thinks of the releases themselves, Record Store Day is aimed at the good cause of trying to keep smaller independent stores alive and to encourage people to visit and rediscover the ones that are still around. For us it is an incredibly important point in the year and to have it compromised like that can only be a bad thing.

I totally agree with the above. I love RSD and our store always treats it as a holiday. Anyone intentionally buying up RSD exclusive records for the purpose of reselling on Ebay instead of letting an independent record store customer have it to own it is being shitty.

for headline-grabbing-but-dumb things like the Blur single from a couple of years ago, every aspect of its creation, marketing and distribution was engineered with the understanding that it was gonna be sold for greatly inflated prices to collectors

bearing that in mind I'm not sure that's a demonstrably worse outcome than three Blur superfans in every town getting a copy and never parting with it because they were such superfans

well to use Blur as an example again, 1000 copies of their single got pressed iirc - 'enough copies to meet demand' would be many, many times that in the UK, even considering no-one buys physical singles anymore

this would lose a big part of the hook for the story and it wouldn't get as much media coverage

one of these days i'll remember to buy some of this stuff. i always forget. the sad thing is maria put our info on their website and now people call me every year - or twice a year now apparently? - and i have to give them the bad news. but other people around have this crap so i point them in the right direction.

plus, you can put a limit on how much of it people buy, right? i don't know, seems like if people get mad at people who buy too much of it for reselling there must be something they can do. i don't begrudge people who do it. land of opportunity and all that.

i started pricing my beatles/floyd/zep up a while back. it did start bugging me when one dude would wipe out my beatles section and i knew they were just going online with them. my prices were cheap. now i raise them just enough so that kids who want beatles records don't get scared away but the resellers think twice about buying. i mean i have a whole store filled with cheap stuff they could make money on. i'd much rather have ten normal people buy beatles records - and come back and buy more and bring their friends - then one dude flipping shit. its just a smarter way to make money.

not a RSD thing but close enough - Tom Jones has a single out today on Jack White's label and they did 100 colour 7"s just to sell in my local shop, I guess cos it's the nearest one left to where he grew up - they sold them at £15 a throw and they went in 30 minutes

i am sure there are store's that do but it just defeats the whole purpose to us. the purpose of the day is to get cool shit in the hands of our customers and we work really hard at making it a special day and getting really especially great stock for that day. we think of it as a customer appreciation day.

A friend who owns a record store thinks there should be some way of giving preferential treatment to regulars ahead of the ebay vultures. I know the point is to bring in new customers but he says that every year a bunch of people swoop on the limited vinyl on RSD and are never seen again.

it wouldn't really truly BE a record store day without collector scum though, right? though i like the idea of creating a myth that record collecting is a sunny happy place where everyone works together hand in hand. with free food! i'm all for it.

I don't want record stores to die, I love them but RSD has evolved into something ridiculous. I remember the first year, was pretty relaxed (I lived in the bay area at the time), went to a few shops they had some good specials and exclusives and free pizza or whatever. Nice vibe. The next year I moved to NY and things took off a little bit more, remember waiting in line and people snapping stuff up and the vibe was pure collector scum. Other Music was an hour wait by midday and Generation records in the Village just had you in a massive queue that snaked around the store then you got to the counter and picked your exclusives off of a pre-printed list where they crossed out out-of-stock items. It's basically turned into a collector scum distribution system and the most disheartening part is that many of the most coveted exclusives seem to be more and more major label stuff. Last year there were ~500 official exclusives, gimme a break. Would love for a store owner/clerk to be candid about how this affects their business positively.

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Ok but I also think of it as, say, your casual customer who isn't gonna come in every weekend. They probably "build up" to RSD and spending a lot of money, then they won't come back for months and months. So, yes, it's gonna be your biggest day but what is it like 2 or 3 months down the road? Is that guy that only comes in a few times a year and just spent $300 in April gonna be coming back? I also think about the exclusive/limited releases that no one wants, just sitting in cut-out bins after six months.

For this box set each album has been carefully mastered for The Collection and pressed on 140 gram vinyl for the very best in audio quality. Each album has been meticulously showcased in a stunning art presentation that is unique and exclusive to this release.

obv it would be preferable if $300 RSD man spread his purchases out more evenly across the year but no-one can figure a way to get him to do that at this stage in the game, so this is what they've come up with in the meantime

Just thinking of theoretical $300 RSD man coming in 4 - 5 times a year instead of feeling he has "done his work" on RSD. Each visit is a time to browse the used new arrivals, get hipped to something he didn't know, etc. Like RSD provides the mental satisfaction of "I supported my local record store" when it's really just a one-off big purchase of, like, a Wilco boxset or w/e. I just don't think that RSD, in the form that I have experienced, really supports my idea of the value of a neighborhood record store.

Each turd has been carefully polished, varnished and encased in a deluxe presentation box which also includes a turd-shaped USB flash drive and limited, numbered art prints depicting the turd from various angles.

The list of exclusive releases varies from country to country, right? Cos the US website says the list isn't ready yet but here in Austria stores are already announcing things e.g. a Peter Brötzmann 7" which I need to get.

I want that Flaming Lips thing, for whatever reason, and 10,000-20,000 copies seems like a lot. Am I delusional? Will those be snapped up super fast?

I can't bear the crowds at Rough Trade in the morning, and my tiny local shop only gets one copy of some things. Will they be long gone by the end of the day, or the next day? It's all too stressful. I can give myself a panic attack over something I really don't care that much about. Why does shit like this work on me?!

The next year I moved to NY and things took off a little bit more, remember waiting in line and people snapping stuff up and the vibe was pure collector scum. Other Music was an hour wait by midday and Generation records in the Village just had you in a massive queue that snaked around the store then you got to the counter and picked your exclusives off of a pre-printed list where they crossed out out-of-stock items

This sounds like the most unpleasant way to buy music I have ever heard of.

It really is, that's exactly how I experience last year's RSD. Stood in line outside for a little over an hour, slowly snaking my way to the counter, then pointing to the two releases left on the list I wanted that hadn't already been crossed off. I've definitely decided I won't be taking part this year. I spend enough money at my locals throughout the year to not feel guilty in the least.

I have been pretty candid about how it effects us positively. We make more money in that one day than we do the whole month of Christmas. We have a blast. All of our customers who usually come in spread out over a month come in all at once and we have a big, fun party. How much more positive can it get?

yeah, i can't imagine any decent indie record shop having any kind of problem with RSD. they make money! guaranteed sales! fans come in and buy the dogshit out of things! only owner i've ever known to grouse about it was a horrible person who ran one of the most overpriced and unfriendly shops i've ever known. she was pissed cuz she overbought on the least genuinely collectible shit and didn't get rich.

RSD doesn't have to just be about the exclusive releases. It's good to bring in casual buyers that will be likely to buy a lot of the general stock.

― Evan

It is true. We sell so many dollar bin records that the whole thing needs to be replenished the next day. We sell a lot of every thing because there are droves of folks that love records in the store. Biggest sales of the year, so it does keep us in business.

It sounds like you run it the right way. Another disappointing aspect of the event I went to last year was that the store actively discouraged browsing. It was structured entirely to get people in the the door and up to the counter to select from the pre-printed list. You could browse a little as you shuffled along the line, but if you stepped away you lost your place. And they actually chased off two guys that started browsing in another section away from the line, telling them that they needed to keep everything "orderly". Granted, this was a pretty narrow shop, but it just seemed to emphasize that the only important thing were those exclusives and those alone.

They obviously have no idea what they are doing. Doomed to fail. If your business model is like the local grocery with the mindset that people shop there because they have to then you might as well follow fye off the inevitable cliff.

Record Store Day definitely is a huge day, businesswise. 3-4x as busy as our average saturday, and getting busier each year.it's kind of a drag to work it, honestly. the store is too busy and the employees are too busy to do much fun. it would be impossible to have an in-store. 3 years ago we had a bbq with burger and dogs and veggie stuff, but even something like that would be too hard to try to do now because of the sheer mass of ppl. last year we drank bloody marys and that helped a lot.

fyi i have done a LOT of ordering for RSD over the last few weeks, and have tried to get most things mentioned in this thread (wld love to get the brotzmann record! EU only?) but i HAVE ordered the lee perry, mclusky, flaming lips. just today i ordered a bunch of THIRD MAN crap, which people love love love and asked for all day last year, long after we sold out. so i ordered higher quanities this year. of montreal/deerhoof split, i expect to be a good seller.

i a PSYCHED about the Mynah Birds! The Rick James/Neil Young group.

there's a jimmy fallon single with his version of the reading rainbow theme song (in the style of the doors.).. skip james & mississippi john hurt reissue on vanguard..

This has a link to tracks from these LPs:RECORD STORE DAY EXCLUSIVEMarch 13, 2012 – Vanguard Records is proud to announce the reissue of five classic recordings available exclusively on Record Store Day – April 21, 2012.

Back in June of 2011 Vanguard and Record Store Day asked fans to vote on www.recordstoreday.com for the five Vanguard titles to be reissued on Record Store Day 2012. Fans voted, and below are the five titles selected. These 12” vinyl LPs – newly re-mastered from the original tapes - will be limited in quantity and available EXCLUSIVELY at participating independently owned record stores on April 21, 2012. And if the past two years are any indication, these LPs will be gone in hours, if not minutes! So mark your calendars – April 21, 2012 – Record Store Day!

every once in a while i would receive new promo vanguard releases in the mail and i liked some of them a LOT. one of them even made my pazz & jop top ten a couple years ago. nobody on earth hears them. nobody. possibly some local npr-type radio play and that's about it. which is too bad, because they really have put out decent folk-ish stuff over the last 5 or 6 years.

The store I work at (up until next Monday) is a contender for ordering the boring Baez reissues. I think we even still have the Hammond ones from last year. I loved the Hurt and Fahey ones from last year though, and am very excited about the Skip James and the new Hurt reissues, definitely.

They had a good a live album out in the early 80s, didn't they? 60s Baez LPs aren't nec so easy to find beyond a few folkie strongholds, the good ones anyway (like what was it, Joan Baez 5, with everything from "Stewball" to Villa Lobos to "The Death of Queen Jane"), before the vibrato took over. That one from a few years ago, Day After Tomorrow, I think, was really good, w song selection and vocal excess reined in by producer Steve Earle, not the first artist you'd think of re vocal reliability.Sub Pop Makes Record Store Day 2012 Worth Living with Releases from Beach House, Blitzen Trapper, and Shabazz Palaces

Terminal Sales Vol. 5: Mixed Nuts, Sub Pop’s Free 16-Track 2012 Label Sampler Will Also Be Available On Record Store Day We here at Sub Pop Records love few things more than Record Store Day. We’ll be demonstrating and celebrating this love on April 21, 2012 with array of exclusive and limited-edition releases featuring new, rare and unreleased tracks from Beach House, Blitzen Trapper, and Shabazz Palaces. On this same day, we will also release our FREE 2012 label sampler, Terminal Sales Vol. 5: Mixed Nuts, a 16-track collection of new, rare and, in some cases, previously released tracks from Beachwood Sparks, Jaill, Shearwater, THEESatisfaction, Spoek Mathambo, Debo Band, King Tuff, and 9 more. All Sub Pop Record Store releases come with exclusive and ridiculously handsome artwork. Full track lists and release details are below.

Shabazz PalacesLive at KEXP12” EP(From the band’s spectacular 2011 live session on KEXP, one of the station’s most popular live sessions, limited-edition of 2,000 copies on purple vinyl)1. bop hard2. An echo from the hosts that profess infinitum3. a mess, the booth that soaks in palacian musk4. free press and curl

luther78San Francisco-based record label Tompkins Square announces the first in a series of releases in the 78 rpm 10" vinyl format.

The first two will feature previously unreleased recordings from Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi Allstars), and Ralph Stanley. Both 78's will be released as a limited edition of 500 copies on Record Store Day, April 21, 2012.

Luther Dickinson plays medleys of Southern melodies on his 78, including "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah/Beautiful Dreamer" on the A side and "Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen/Peace in the Valley" on the B side. Ralph Stanley's 78 features "Single Girl", with "Little Birdie" on the B side.

Tompkins Square owner Josh Rosenthal comments, "A lot of new turntables play 78's, and many 78 collectors listen to their records on modern equipment. Tom Waits, Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe have all recently released 78's. So I thought it would be fun to start a line of them."

The label will also release a white label 45 of Hiss Golden Messenger's "Jesus Shot Me in The Head" from the forthcoming album 'Poor Moon', b/w the unreleased "Jesus Dub," on Record Store Day.

Hiss Golden Messenger's album "Poor Moon" is set for release April 17th.

I'm not even doing the actual ordering for our store but am trying to keep on top of it all as my boss does so, as there is just the two of us, and it is totally madness-inducing! SOOOO much stuff spread across so many distributors and emails and phone calls and customer requests and order forms and and and and....

For National Record Store Day---The Electronic Anthology Project of Dinosaur Jr.

Two years ago, Built To Spill bassist and solo artist Brett Nelson decided to put his considerable musical talents up to a bit of a challenge:

"I truly love bands like Talk Talk, Men Without Hats, and Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, but I also love bands like Dinosaur Jr., The Replacements, and The Pixies. So what if I merged my two loves together?"

The answer to that question, initially, was the first release by The Electronic Anthology Project, an EP that took seven songs from the Built To Spill catalog and reimagined them as '80s synth pop classics. Utilizing a variety of vintage 80’s synthesizers and drum machines, the project shimmered with an authentic sheen. And rather than rely on the cut-and-paste ease of modern recording software, he records all the melody lines into his computer using as many takes as needed to get it right. "If I can't play it straight all the way through without screwing up," he says, "then it's not used." And the whole experiment was delightfully topped off with newly recorded vocal tracks from BTS front man, Doug Martsch.

Although dismissed by some reviewers as a "goof," Nelson took to the task with great sincerity and the resulting songs bridged the two seemingly separate worlds with bubbly charm and grin-inducing levity.

At the time of the first EAP release, Nelson promised that he would be back with more. And true to his word comes the latest installment in this project: The Electronic Anthology Project of Dinosaur Jr.

To be released on Record Store Day (April 21st, 2012) in a limited edition of 500 purple vinyl copies (with digital, cd and standard vinyl to follow), the new edition of The Electronic Anthology Project takes nine songs from Dinosaur Jr. and brings out the new wave influences that were always hiding among the acid-dripping guitar solos and fervent rhythms.

The blast of "Little Fury Things" (from Dinosaur Jr.'s breakthrough 1987 LP You're Living All Over Me) is given a new life thanks to a throbbing Devo-like pulse. One of the band's most underrated songs from their Sire years, "Feel The Pain," sounds even more wistful when lost in the swell of glistening synth melodies and a knotty bed of programmed beats that would make The Human League proud.

True to form, Nelson called on Dinosaur Jr. leader J. Mascis to record all new vocal tracks for each song here. Wrenched free from the volume and intensity of his band, the heartfelt side of Mascis's lyrics and sober delivery are given the spotlight's full glare and, as a result, shine even brighter.

Lest you think even after two volumes of the Electronic Anthology Project that Nelson is done, he has a long wish list of bands he'd love to make future EAP projects with, including the likes of The Pixies and Sebadoh.

Tinariwen will be contributing to the cause with the vinyl debut of their Grammy winning album Tassili in a special Record Store Day edition which includes four remixes, available for the first time anywhere.

"I was excited to have a chance to work on a Tinariwen song because while their instrumentation is not all that different their rhythms and their melodies are entirely different from what I am used to, remixing "Imidiwan Ma Tenam" allowed me to think a differently and, frankly, it was just good fun.” - John Gourley, Portugal. The Man

On their latest album Tassili the band return to the essence of their hypnotic desert blues sound. Recorded in the South-Eastern Algerian desert, the band is joined by Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone of TV On The Radio. Later on, virtuoso guitarist Nels Cline (Wilco) and the horns of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band contributed. The result is a simultaneously exotic and accessible sound.

2-LP editions, that is:Three vinyl reissues - ‘Arthur’, ‘Face To Face’ and ‘Something Else’ – released April 21st on UniversalThe Kinks jump on board for Record Store Day 2012 with three vinyl reissues; classic albums ‘Arthur’ (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)’, ‘Face To Face’ and ‘Something Else’, released April 21st on Universal.

Based around fictional character Arthur Morgan – a carpet-layer inspired by Ray Davies' brother-in-law Arthur Anning – ‘Arthur’ is a canonical Kinks concept album from 1969. This 2-LP edition reissue comes on white coloured vinyl.

‘Face To Face’ was released in 1966 and represents the first full flowering of Ray Davies’ songwriting; narrative-rich, with wry social commentary. Consisting entirely of his compositions, it heralded the band’s move away from the hard-driving rock and roll style of 1964-65. This 2-LP edition reissue comes on blue coloured vinyl.

‘Something Else’ was the fifth studio album by The Kinks, released in 1967 and features three songs composed by Dave Davies, including the hit single ‘Death of a Clown’. This 2-LP edition reissue comes on red coloured vinyl.

All 2-LP editions, these three vinyl reissues come with deluxe packaging – with Mono and Stereo mixes – and booklets designed by award winning art director Phil Smee, packed with rare and unreleased images from the era.

Each reissue was re-mastered from original tapes by Kinks archivist Andrew Sandoval and is limited to 500 copies in the UK, all of which are individually numbered.

Record Store Day 2012 takes place Saturday April 21st, for more information go to: Record Store Day - Home

instead of getting me all excited, all of these announcements are just making me realize that this whole day is now just pretty much catered to those people who are only going to shop this day and this day only out of the year. i'll just continue to support my local the other 364 days.

damn, seems like the longer RSD goes on and the bigger the crowds get, the smaller the print runs on mainstream scumbait stuff get. not enough of a kinks fan to care, but i bet there are at least 5,000 people in the world who are.

yeah i mean that was biggest gripe from other RSD days is that i was surrounded in line by dudes whose sole intent was to grab ebay fodder. like i went in with a list of 5 records i wanted by bands i loved and was only able to come home with 1.

my strategy has been to show up at my favorite record store because it's not one of the biggest in minneapolis and i have a decent shot at getting some of the big stuff -- like last year i got the television old waldorf thing and the big star thing

then i just go to some other stores after it cool downs and if you have no real agenda and don't want some of the hyped stuff you can pick up great gems like i got the arthur russell thing really late in the day....

last 3 years running in the US they've re-released one arthur russel -- love is overtaking me, calling out of context, and world of echo (in that order)....however, the dude that runs the store i go to says he doesn't see World of Arthur Russell on the docket for this year, which seemed like the next logical choice :(

but i snagged all 3 pretty easily

there's also cool shit i saw around weeks after record store day like a rough guide to desert blues, some old blues reissues, really awesome music, but the vultures are pretty much just going for name brand indie/alternative/classic rock stuff

this kinda thing is definitely not for me. but i'm cranky like that. and i kinda hate new "limited edition" reissues in general. they remind me of hologram baseball cards or something. lots of that stuff loses value over time. i also just kinda hate how expensive new records are now. but maybe i'm just jealous that i don't have the disposable income to buy that stuff. and i'm a bargain hunter. i'd rather buy 50 old two dollar records than 4 new reissues.

got a cool 3LP earmark reissue of kinks village green in at the store. there is a whole lotta village green on that thing. out of print, don't you know. sells for like a hundred bucks. or i hope so anyway.

yeah honestly i've never really sold an album! except just clearing out a bunch of crap $1 stuff i bought in the 90s just to be rid of it, but half the time the store wouldn't take them so i took them to the salvation army

Yeah, and most of the xpost is stuff I'd like to check out beyond Record Day anyway, never mind the eBay. Those Battles mixes, Subpop singles, even the Dino Jr mixes, which I've got but haven't gotten to quite yet--back to the office, but maybe I should go see this, on Record Store Day Eve? Also in connection w new releases:

really hope i can score the hazlewood comp that's comin out, but generally feel like this right now: i also just kinda hate how expensive new records are now. i wanted to pick up the new julia holter here, i waited for it to arrive & it's £17. like $25 for a new record.

Kinda annoying that there is just enough stuff on the Hazlewood comp that I have not heard (I think) to make it attractive, but most of it looks like it's from Cowboy & Sweden (or was tagged onto the end of that otherwise pretty meh Anne Margret album.)

No way new pressings, esp of double LPs, ltd. ed. or not, are gonna go for 1975 prices. For one thing, there aren't so many pressing plants left. Feistodon looks like a match made in Hell, though haven't heard it. Note all the in-stores listed at end:

GARY CLARK JR. AND XIMENA SARINANA IN-STORE SIGNINGS SET FOR RSD AT COACHELLA'S ZIA RECORDS TENT ON APRIL 20TH

"VINYL REVISIONISTS" GRAPHIC ALBUM COVER ART REINTERPRETATIONS AVAILABLE NOW

April 18, 2012 - (Burbank, CA) - RECORD STORE DAY is nearly here! Saturday, April 21st Warner Bros. Records will have a special series of vinyl albums and singles available in honor of the 5th annual Record Store Day - a celebration of the unique culture surrounding over 700 independently owned record stores in the USA, and hundreds of similar stores internationally. Warner Bros. Records is proud to be an official sponsor of Record Store Day.

Among the most anticipated releases this weekend includes a pair of highly sought-after 7" vinyl limited edition pressings: Mastodon / Feist split 7", otherwise referred to as FEISTODON and the Mastodon / Flaming Lips Side By Side 2012 series 7" single. The members of Mastodon, currently in the middle of an extensive US tour, are avid participants of Record Store Day and wanted fans to know: "Mastodon are proud to uphold their long-standing commitment to supporting Independent Record stores on Record Store Day. The vinyl album and single format remains an important part of our culture and heritage as recording artists and we hope you'll enjoy our interpretations of these songs by artists we admire and respect."

Once again, these very special releases are as follows:

THE FLAMING LIPS AND HEADY FWENDS: A double album pressed on two high-quality, multi-color vinyl discs housed in separate custom art jackets and poly bagged together. No two discs will look exactly alike. This double album will be very limited and released exclusively for Record Store Day. Once it's gone, it will not be repressed again making THE FLAMING LIPS AND HEADY FWENDS the most anticipated RSD release this year.

Track-listing for THE FLAMING LIPS AND HEADY FWENDS is as follows:

Side 1:

2012 (featuring Ke$ha and Biz Markie)

Ashes In The Air (featuring Bon Iver)

Helping The Retarded To Know God (featuring Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros)

Side 2:

Supermoon Made Me Want To Pee (featuring Prefuse 73)

Children Of The Moon (featuring Tame Impala)

That Ain't My Trip (featuring Jim James of My Morning Jacket)

You, Man? Human? (featuring Nick Cave)

Side 3:

I'm Working At NASA On Acid (featuring Lightning Bolt)

Do It! (featuring Yoko Ono)

Is David Bowie Dying? (featuring Neon Indian)

Side 4:

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (featuring Erykah Badu)

Thunder Drops (featuring New Fumes)

I Don't Want You To Die (featuring Chris Martin of Coldplay)

The Black Keys: El Camino (Deluxe vinyl album)

A stunning and highly collectible deluxe vinyl issue of the critically acclaimed 2011 album from The Black Keys. Cut for vinyl from the master tapes at Bernie Grundman Mastering and pressed at Pallas for sonic perfection. This album will never sound or look better. This RSD exclusive package also contains a bonus CD, a limited edition poster, and a two song 45 rpm 7" single featuring previously unreleased live tracks: "Sister" and "Money Maker."

A RSD exclusive contains two previously unreleased live tracks, "If You Love Me Like You Say" and "Bright Lights" capture over twenty minutes of music from one of the most anticipated guitar players in music today. This first-ever vinyl release from Clark is sure to be sought out by fans and collectors alike. Cut at 45 rpm by Bernie Grundman Mastering for the very best in analog sound quality and presentation.

Eric Clapton: Blues (Deluxe Vinyl Album Box Set)

Released to critical acclaim leading up to RSD's Back To Black Friday 2011, this limited edition box set is close to selling out. The set includes all three of Eric Clapton's seminal blues albums, From The Cradle, Riding With The King (with B.B. King) and Me And Mr. Johnson, remastered from original source material for vinyl. First time vinyl versions of these albums afford the listener an absolutely stellar new audio experience. With little more than 1,000 box sets left it's time to get your hands on this audiophile treasure.

Common: The Dreamer/The Believer (12" vinyl album)

A limited edition offering featuring exclusive album art of Common's ninth studio album for Record Store Day. The Dreamer/The Believer reunites Common with producer No. I.D., who produced the rapper's most acclaimed CDs. Robust tracks revere and update the past, such as the retro-soul, Curtis Mayfield-influenced "Lovin' I Lost" and tremulously beautiful "Gold."

On Record Store Day, Nonesuch releases Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions, which includes: Mermaid Avenue; Mermaid Avenue Vol. II (re-mastered); Mermaid Avenue Vol. III, comprising 17 previously unreleased recordings made during the Mermaid Avenue sessions; director Kim Hopkins' 1999 film Man in the Sand, which documents those sessions; and a 48-page booklet with new liner notes by Nora Guthrie, full lyrics, archival photographs, and facsimiles of lyric sheets and sketches by Woody Guthrie.

Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr.: We Almost Lost Detroit EP (12" vinyl EP)

A Record Store Day exclusive containing three remixes and three covers, including Madonna's "Like A Prayer," "I Think Of You" by Sixto Rodriguez (both exclusive to this release only) and the memorable Gil Scott Heron cover "We Almost Lost Detroit" from their debut album IT'S A CORPORATE WORLD and remixes by Stepdad, Phantasmagoria, and Chuck Daniels. This six-song single disc is cut at 45 rpm by Bernie Grundman Mastering.

Disturbed: The Collection (Vinyl Album Box Set)

We are proud to announce the definitive Disturbed vinyl box-set edition, THE COLLECTION. A five-album, six-disc offering of the band's complete studio album discography featuring The Sickness (2000), Believe (2002), Ten Thousand Fists (2005), Indestructible (2008), and Asylum (2010). A career retrospective spanning ten years and 18 Billboard Top 100 hits of sophisticated and life-altering heavy music. For this box set, each album has been carefully mastered and pressed on 140-gram vinyl for the very best in audio quality. Each album has been meticulously showcased in a stunning art presentation that is unique and exclusive to this release. This is a limited edition box of only 2500 units worldwide.

Dr. John: Locked Down (Vinyl album)

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inducted boogie and blues pianist with an inimitable growl of a voice, Dr. John's most enduring achievements have fused New Orleans R&B, rock, and the Mardi Gras party spiritto come up with his own brand of "voodoo" music. Dr. John's new album, Locked Down (due April 3rd), is a bold statement produced by The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach and will be Dr. John's first for Nonesuch Records.

Fleetwood Mac: Fleetwood Mac (Deluxe and Standard vinyl editions)

What can be said about this classic album that has not been said before? Originally released in 1975 and representing not only a rebirth of the band, with the addition of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, but really a second debut for a group firmly rooted in the rock genre, now reinventing themselves into a pop rock force in a way that few other artists can lay claim to. The album includes the iconic songs "Rhiannon," "Say You Love Me," and "Over My Head." Cut for vinyl at Bernie Grundman Mastering from the original analog tapes and pressed in both 33 rpm and 45 rpm for the very best in audio presentation. A collectible and definitive version for any generation.

Jeff The Brotherhood: Upstairs at United Vol. 3 (12" vinyl EP) This release is a 3 song EP of JEFF The Brotherhood as a 5 piece band (recorded live to tape) performing "Master Of The Universe" by Hawkwind (from the album In Search Of Space), a brain-melting new track called "In Space, Nobody Can Hear You Scream" plus a reprised "cover" of "I'm A Freak." Pressed at 45rpm for greater sonic impact at United Record Pressing and distributed by URP Music Distributors and 453 Music. You have no idea what you're in for...

Kimbra: Settle Down (Deluxe CD EP)

International newcomer Kimbra's digital EP is being re-released as a physical CD just in time for RSD and her tour with Gotye. The five-song release, which now includes the sultry "Good Intent," also features title track "Settle Down" as well as a remix of "Cameo Lover".

Metallica: Beyond Magnetic (12" color vinyl EP)

Beyond Magnetic consists of four outtakes from the 2008 Death Magnetic sessions and is available for the first time on silver vinyl just for RSD. A potent and exceptionally well-produced example of Metallica's most recent work, which can hold its own with anything within their vast heavy music cannon. Previously unreleased on vinyl and includes a limited edition Metallica sticker.

Mastodon / Feist "A Commotion"/ "Black Tongue" (7" vinyl single)

In conjunction with Cherrytree/Interscope Records- A very exclusive and highly anticipated RSD pressing features Mastodon covering the Feist song "A Commotion," (from her album Metals) while Feist covers Mastodon's "Black Tongue." A unique and highly buzzed-about Record Store Day prize.

On April 14, 2012, the Red Hot Chili Peppers will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and to commemorate this historic event, this classic Deluxe box set of the band's first number one album will be specially priced for Record Store Day. The Deluxe package was mastered for vinyl by Steve Hoffman and includes two 16-page booklets - "Jupiter" and "Mars." The Red Hot Chili Peppers won four Grammy® Awards for Stadium Arcadium including: Best Rock Album, Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package in addition to Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group for their chart-topping, record-breaking single "Dani California."

Ximena Sarinana: Maps / La Llorona (7" vinyl single)

A two-song 7" from an exceptionally original and emerging artist, featuring two audio tracks: "Maps" (a Yeah Yeah Yeah's cover) from Rolling Stone Live and "La Llorona" (a Latin America folk song) from KCRW's "Morning Becomes Eclectic." A special release to celebrate her Coachella 2012 appearance.

A RSD exclusive features two b-sides from Regina's upcoming album What We Saw From The Cheap Seats, due in May. This single on white vinyl, mastered by Bob Ludwig, features two songs originally penned by Russian Poet/Musician Bulat Okudzhava, and are performed completely in Russian.

Tegan and Sara: Get Along (12" color vinyl album)

A Record Store Day exclusive - never before on vinyl. Featuring music from the 2011 Get Along release, comprised of 15 favorites like "Alligator," "Call It Off," "Monday Monday Monday," and "Sentimental Tune." This single live disc, pressed on 12" white vinyl, finds the duo waltzing through its 15-year career with the kind of ease and amiable confidence that can only come from longtime friends who also happen to be siblings.

"Dark Star" was their ultimate improvisational vehicle, allowing the band to really stretch out and jam freely, often times for over a half hour. DARK STAR - 5/4/72 - OLYMPIA THEATRE - PARIS, FRANCE includes one of the longest versions of the song in Dead history, clocking in at over 40 minutes. Mixed by Jeffrey Norman and mastered by David Glasser, the vinyl features nearly 20 minutes of the song on the first side followed by a mid-song drum solo and the song's epic finale on the second side. Released in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Dead's legendary Europe '72 tour.

T-Rex: The Electric Warrior Singles Box: (Six 7" vinyl singles)

This RSD exclusive comes housed in a clamshell-box featuring the entire album, plus the non-album b-side "Raw Ramp," spread across six singles. When combined, the six picture sleeves form an image of T. Rex founder Marc Bolan in his prime. Chris Bellman used the original analog masters to cut each disc at Bernie Grundman Mastering.

Misfits: Walk Among Us (Color vinyl album - 3 different colors)

Rhino will also offer three colored-vinyl versions of the Misfits' WALK AMONG US to mark the 30-year anniversary of the band's 1982 full-length debut. It is a faithful reproduction of the original with music cut from the original analog masters and packaging that duplicates details down to the printed inner sleeve. The album will be pressed on red (1,250 pieces), blue (1,250 pieces) and clear (500) vinyl. Color variations will be distributed randomly. There will also be a purple vinyl pressing released internationally that will be limited to 1,500 copies.

Side by Side 2012 Series:

A continuation of the well-received Warner Bros Records "Side by Side" series, which was initially introduced in 2011. All are exclusive for Record Store Day on uniquely colored and extremely limited edition 7" vinyl singles, featuring Warner artists covering other historic and personally influential iconic artists. This year's series includes:

The Run-DMC classic rendered in an entirely new way by old-time string band the Carolina Chocolate Drops. The Drops' version was recorded at the same sessions as their February 2012 release Leaving Eden, which was produced by Nashville legend Buddy Miller.

The incendiary original coupled with a cover version from the pioneer of The Electro Funk Sound.

Otis Redding / Aretha Franklin: "Respect" (7" gold vinyl single)

The seminal classics meet for the first time together on vinyl.

Looking for more unique and rare artifacts? Here at Warner Bros. Records we are strongly committed to vinyl as an art form. Last month, the label mounted its first-ever art show at its iconic Burbank headquarters. The exhibit, entitled Vinyl Revisionists, featured street artists, painters, and graphic designers reinterpreting the covers of their favorite Warner Bros. Records artists' albums. Spanning the rich 50-year musical history of label, it included imaginative interpretations of covers of albums by Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jimi Hendrix, Madonna, Frank Zappa, Prince, Van Halen, Roxy Music, The Smiths, and Mastodon, among others. All the pieces are currently for sale, with a portion of the proceeds going to benefit Hollywood Arts. To view and purchase the work, visit http://wbrartgalleries.wmg-gardens.com/index.php.

NEWS FLASH: Many of our artists will profess their love of Record Store Day by making special appearances at various Independent record stores around the country. The grand schedule is as follows:

Record Store Day is managed by the Music Monitor Network and is organized in partnership with the Alliance of Independent Media Stores (AIMS), the Coalition of Independent Music Stores (CIMS) and celebrates the culture of independent record stores by playing host to in-store events/performances, signings and special product releases on a global scale on Saturday, April 21st, 2012.

For more about National Record Store Day, please visit www.recordstoreday.com.

Anyway, here's the whole Sundazed National etc series of vinyl singles. Didn't know about the original Byrds foursome getting back to an "under-the-radar" reunion, unless it ties in w that badly-reviewed LP titled Byrds

It’s “Christmas in April” for vinyl fans around the world! These STRICTLY LIMITED Record Store Day 2012 titles are being produced exclusively for participating independent record shops.

To be CERTAIN you get the copies you want of these INSTANTLY COLLECTIBLE records, ask your local dealer NOW to make sure they will be carrying these titles for Record Store Day.

We will be offering an extremely limited quantity of these titles to our loyal customers and friends who find it impossible to make it to a record store.

Quantities on all of these titles are ultra-limited, and they will be for sale on our website ONLY on Record Store Day, April 21, 2012!This page is for preview only—you cannot order from it.Look 'em over, and please, please ask your favorite record shop to stock these for the big day in April!You can find find your local participating record dealer HERE!Tell them SUNDAZED sent you!

RECORD STORE DAY BEGINS IN:1 day, 11 hours, 15 minutes, 45 seconds

Gene ClarkOne in a Hundred / She’s the Kind of Girl 7" Single

S 240 | 7" Single

Limited Edition Record Store Day Release!

The long-lost Byrds recordings... An under-the-radar Byrds' reunion took place in 1970 when the other four founding members of the pioneering folk-rock group were invited to back up their principal songwriter and one-time frontman Gene Clark on two of Clark’s finest compositions. Under the auspices of original Byrds' manager Jim Dickson, the session results were exquisite; each song a shining example of the Byrds’ timelessly transcendent sound. The ever-chiming “One in a Hundred” and delicate “She’s the Kind of Girl” (with subtle flute flourishes from Bud Shank) both undeniably bore the Byrds' signature sound. The proposed single should have been a huge hit for Gene...but like much of his post-Byrds career, bad luck intervened, as contractual obligations prevented the release of the single.

Sundazed is elated to now present these legendary recordings here in their original, "unsweetened" form, sourced from the surviving, original rough-mix mono reels. Making for an exceptional single, these truly are the long-lost Byrds tracks.

TRACK LIST:1. One in a Hundred2. She’s the Kind of Girl

Doug Dillard and Gene ClarkWhy Not Your Baby / Lyin’ Down The Middle 7" Single

S 241 | 7" Single

Limited Edition Record Store Day Release!

Both tracks originally NON-LP sides—together here for the first time as a single!

Following the '68 release of the groundbreaking album The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark, Gene Clark and Doug Dillard returned to the studio in early '69 to record a new single for A&M. Country-rock was still in its formative stage and was certainly considered a commercial risk. The result was stunning. “Lyin’ Down the Middle” unveiled itself as an infectious, uptempo country rocker, featuring one of Gene Clark’s most inspired vocals and further enhanced by future-Eagle Bernie Leadon’s supremely tasteful guitar-picking. For a follow-up single release just a few short months later, Dillard & Clark cut the lushly orchestrated Clark composition “Why Not Your Baby." Boasting gorgeous harmonies and soaring strings, the recording remains one of the strongest in Clark's repertoire, and one of the finest examples of the sound of country meeting rock.

Remarkably, both “Lyin’ Down the Middle” and “Why Not Your Baby” were issued ONLY as single sides at the time by A&M; they were not included on any original Dillard & Clark album. Proudly presented here from the original A&M mono masters, this re-imagined single reveals Dillard & Clark sailing forefront of the nascent California country-rock movement.

TRACK LIST:1. Why Not Your Baby2. Lyin’ Down The Middle

Chocolate Watch BandIn the Midnight Hour / Psychedelic Trip 7" Single

S 242 | 7" Single

Limited Edition Record Store Day Release!

Was there a more influential band from the West Coast’s Class of ’66 punks??? If any convincing is required, listen no further than the Watch Band’s pulverizing take on “In the Midnight Hour.” In a tradition established with their first official single, “Sweet Young Thing,” this outtake features an absolutely stunning rhythm track coupled with frontman Dave Aguilar’s raving original vocal. Definitive! (Inexplicably, the orig. producers chose to replace Aguilar’s superior vocal for the officially-released version that appeared on the group’s No Way Out LP.) As for the instro outtake “Psychedelic Trip,” by the time Aguilar added lyrics and vocal to this off-the-cuff studio jam, it had transformed into the epochal track “No Way Out.” As the name implies, “Psychedelic Trip” is Chocolate Watch Band at its most mind-blowing; with lead guitarist Mark Loomis instinctively taking off into the cosmic, improvisational zone. Sundazed proudly presents this jaw-dropping single-that-never-was in powerhouse mono, from the mighty, original Tower masters!

TRACK LIST:1. In the Midnight Hour2. Psychedelic Trip

Bloos MagoosSo I’m Wrong And You Are Right / Wild About My Lovin’ / The People Had No Faces 7" EP

SEP 244 | 7" Single

Limited Edition Record Store Day Release!

In January 1967, the Blues Magoos were at the top of the garage game. Their classic, “(We Ain’t Got) Nothin’ Yet” was Top 5 nationally; they had a hit album and nationwide TV exposure. But one year earlier, it was a different story. As the Bloos Magoos, their debut 45, “So I’m Wrong and You Are Right” / “The People Had No Faces” was completely ignored upon its release in January ’66. What a damn shame! “So I’m Wrong and You Are Right” is a tough protest lyric set to the Magoos’ short-lived folk-rock fixation. Also firmly in the same bag, “The People Had No Faces” is a weird, wonderful little nugget in the band’s catalog. On both tracks, Ralph Scala (Ralph Magoo) delivers up two of his most inspired lead vocals. Importantly, leading up to this lost session, a nascent Magoos hustled their way into regular work at the legendary Night Owl Café in Greenwich Village, the launch site for the Lovin’ Spoonful. For that Spoonful/Night Owl influence, look no further than the previously unreleased “Wild About My Lovin’" from that very same studio date featuring Zal-style reverb and the most sensationally trashy drums this side of the Spoonful’s appearance on The Big T.N.T. Show. Cut from the original Verve-Folkways mono masters, Sundazed is proud to showcase the Magoo' famously lost '65 session!

TRACK LIST:1. So I’m Wrong and You Are Right2. Wild About My Lovin3. The People Had No Faces

Upon signing with A&M Records, Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band debuted loudly, recording two singles in 1966, cementing their image as Sunset Strip "blues fiends" and paving the way for what was to become one of the most original careers in rock history. The band's cover of Bo Diddley's "Diddy Wah Diddy" garnered significant regional attention & considerable radio play courtesy of the Captain's unreal howl & Jerry Handley's deep, thundering bass sound, while the driving delta tributes "Who Do You Think You're Fooling" & "Frying Pan" sharply displayed the Captain's early songwriting prowess. While the Magic Band's musical course were soon to evolve in drastic & original ways, it's these early sides that depict a developed blues foundation and a signature tightness that was threaded through all Magic Bands to come. Sundazed now proudly presents these legendary recordings in double 7" 45rpm gatefold edition, all sides cut from the original A&M mono masters.

In their relatively short lifespan, the visionary Blues Project—which included fabled guitar master Danny Kalb and legendary keyboardist Al Kooper—pioneered a dynamic fusion of blues, folk-rock, psychedelia and improvisational instrumentals. Far ahead of its time, the Blues Project fine-tuned their eclecticism and built their reputation through their electrifying live shows in NYC. Appropriately, the group made their recorded debut with Live at the Cafe Au Go Go, which captured the group at the peak of its power, during a week-long stand in November 1965 at the titular Greenwich Village club. This historic set of recordings also yielded a good deal of marvelous material that was left off the BP's first album. Two of those long-lost performances are featured here–the band’s raw 'n mighty readings of a pair of blues classics, Mose Allison’s “Parchman Farm” and Jimmy Reed’s “Bright Lights, Big City.” Sundazed is proud to present these two tracks for the first time on vinyl, direct from the original Verve Folkways mono masters.

TRACK LIST:1. Parchman Farm2. Bright Lights, Big City

The ByrdsI’ll Feel A Whole Lot Better / It’s No Use 7" Single

S 247 | 7" Single

Limited Edition Record Store Day ReleasE on colored vinyl!

The Byrds’ “Mr. Tambourine Man” played a massive role in defining rock music in the sixties: it introduced the song’s composer to a wider – and younger – rock audience and, more than any other recording or event, it ushered in the reigning sound of ’65, folk-rock. But most importantly, it announced one of the essential musical experiences of the era, The Byrds. And if “Mr. Tambourine Man” sounded like an electric symphony, Gene Clark’s “I’ll Feel A Whole Lot Better” captured the group’s need to let loose musically with a thrilling up-tempo arrangement - one that would launch a thousand U.S. garage bands. Clark's unparalleled gift for songwriting was matched by a unique, at times world weary vocal delivery which is perfectly captured on the rare, alternate vocal take version of “I’ll Feel A Whole Lot Better,” included here. Also from the Mr. Tambourine Man album sessions, “It’s No Use” demonstrates that a raw Byrds album outtake is as good or better than most band’s finished masters. Sourced from the original, Columbia Records mono masters, these songs evoke the excitement of the Byrds at take-off, blowing minds and filling the dance floor at Ciro’s on the Sunset Strip.

Paul Revere & the Raiders delivered a ton of magnificent flavors during their '59–'72 run as hit-makers, from boogie and rhythm & blues to lush psych-pop. However, the years 1965 and 1966 may well be the group's most beloved era, when the Raiders drove their Pacific Northwest grind head-on into the incoming Brit Invasion sounds of the Animals and the Kinks. The result? ’60s Garage Punk. And two originally unissued numbers from this prime moment are featured here. An August '65 cover of Lee Dorsey’s “Ride Your Pony” is stock Raiders at their most floor-filling, featuring Mark Lindsay’s demanding vocals, Paul Revere's churning Vox organ, and an incessant riff from the group’s scale-tipping lead guitarist, Drake Levin. On the flipside, “(You’re a) Bad Girl” is one full summer’s leap (recorded in July ’66), and is a stunning folk-punk romp. Lindsay provides taunting, deep, Jagger-esque verses, a pounding rhythm section is provided by bassist Phil Volk and drummer Mike Smith, and Jim Valley (new to the group) perfectly contributes to the legendary twin-guitar sound that producer Terry Melcher would often add to the Raiders mix. We're proud to bring you this mighty pairing–the first time on vinyl for both tracks, and direct from the original Columbia Records mono masters!

TRACK LIST:1. Ride Your Pony2. (You’re A) Bad Girl

In a special arrangement with Spinout Records:

The NeanderthalsGroovy Dances / How Can I Make Her Mine 7" Single

Spin 024 | 7" Single

Limited Edition Record Store Day Release!

Hailing from a Paleolithic-era settlement near Albany, NY—Johnny Rabb and Eddie Angel’s fur-clad primitivism has been delighting Homo Sapiens (and Cro-Magnons) for epochs. Historians are rethinking which was invented first—the wheel, or the electric guitar—after discovering these Stone Cylinder recordings. Anticipating the sounds of Link Wray and the Kingsmen, the Neanderthals certainly predate the invention of the garage, and can only be described as the world’s only cave-rock band. Here they offer up two raunchy, wild dance songs that were no doubt part of some ritualistic dance party. These songs will definitely get you doing the Twist, whether or not you have opposable thumbs. The Neanderthals have headlined concert halls and beer joints around the world...Australia, Spain, Italy, France, Czech Republic, Germany, England and Troy, NY...their philosophy has remained the same: rock ’n’ roll should always aspire to be as fun as “Louie Louie,” as raw as “Rumble” and as meaningful as “Surfin’ Bird!”

The Martian Denny Orchestra hail from a planet where every TV program is brought to you in living color, the number one movie at the box office is The Horror of Party Beach and five of the ten top albums are by the Ventures, Santo & Johnny, Link Wray, Billy Mure and the Spotnicks. They've landed in Nashville, and have begun unleashing their brand of dazzling atomic instrumentals upon an unsuspecting public. Guitarist Eddie Angel shakes up the world of indie-rock with Los Straitjackets and the Planet Rockers. Guitarist Bob Irwin, the man behind famed reissue label Sundazed Music, is the fretboard whiz of New York’s Pluto Walkers. Dave Roe played bass for Johnny Cash and works the same magic for John Mellencamp and many others. Jim Hoke plays steel guitar and woodwinds for NRBQ, Toby Keith and others. The rock-solid beat comes courtesy of the mighty Jimmy Lester, the original skinsman of Los Straitjackets and now with Webb Wilder’s honky tonk hellions. The M.D.O. has only one M.O., and that's to get the Action Set stomping to a twangy beat—one that would make Duane Eddy proud!!

the amount of special ltd editions this year is truly insane.i can easily see a lot of this stuff still being on the shelves in a few weeks time.pretty certain the same was true last year.sure i recall seeing a ton of collector scum material in head/bristol way after the event desperate for some love/££.

Just home after the first of what will probably be three 12 hour days culminating in Record Store Day itself on Saturday. A vague semblance of order has been imposed on the hundreds upon hundreds of records...

I worry that the focus on special limited edition vinyls excludes most people who buy music. Wouldn't it be better if Record Store Day was just promoted as a day to buy music? Not everyone lives near a good brick & mortar store, and not every store has what people want. I discussed it here - http://www.fastnbulbous.com/record-store-day.htm

as someone who spends a shitload of time in record shops.. i'm not excited by the prospect of (mostly) overpriced major-label rehashes of old material which comprises the bulk of the RSD list...

....but as a mechanism of getting those who don't go to indie record shops to get their music fix to change their behaviour by offering limited edition goodies, and to help those shops make a bit more money to keep them going - i'm all for it...

If RSD enables shops to make a bit more profit to enable them to stay open in difficult times, then it's served its purpose as far as i'm concerned..

So have a great Record Store Day everyone, but especially if you work in a store!

I didn't go to the first 2 Record Store Days because I didn't live near a record store. Now I live near one but I probably won't bother going because:

1. queuing for a tiny chance at an expensive limited edition record, which I just tick off a list instead of looking at before I buy, and no chance to browse the rest of the stock = zzz. I like record shopping mainly for seeing what's in the used racks and bargain bins, not for paying £30 for a 200gsm limited edition of my, like, 15th choice picked off a list.

2. I find it highly unlikely that my local shop has signed up for the exclusives I'm most interested in. I'm fairly sure the Circle or Bitchin Bajas LPs are not coming to my town this year, just like the Purling Hiss / Puffy Aerolas split didn't come to my town last year, because where I live those bands would be kind of niche and the record shop would surely rather stock Arcade Monkey Bowie Dylan reissue shovelware which will definitely sell (and be on eBay the next day)

I might head down for the instore later on, but it will be basically impossible to buy anything once there are bands and amps and 20-30 spectators crammed into a shop barely bigger than my bedroom, so that's not a great win for the shop either.

(PS still hope everyone who works in a store has a good day and makes $$$, everyone who goes to one gets something they want and will actually listen to instead of selling unheard, etc)

Waited in line outside Phonica in London for a good two hours this morning, mainly in the hope of getting that Tindersticks 10" (I didn't). Some of the people at the front of the line were coming out with stacks of vinyl - call me a cynic, but I can't imagine they were planning on listening to those records...

Anyway, I bought a few overpriced singles, and that John Cale ep, but I do feel like a bit of a tit for getting suckered in by the whole thing.

yeah very good point about not even SEEING the damn things you're buying before you get them. has to be said the cover for the ABBA 12" looks really crap. i didn't GET one of course, it sold out 30 minutes after our local shop opened, but luckily i've seen a copy on EBAY. handy!

People who are against RSD seem to think it is all about the limited releases. That was just supposed to be part of the incentive, and contribution to the festivities by the labels. The stores who get it are the ones that do DJ sets all day, in-store performances, BBQs, sales on general stock, etc. This is a day to strengthen the idea of a community to support record stores. It's not Record Label Day so stop treating it that way. Few places require you to stand in line after the doors open anyway.

yeah things have a way of turning into something else. i don't recall anyone on here talking about the great live music bbq that they can't wait to go to at their local record store. nijoli seemed like the only one looking forward to bbq. which is cool. i hope she has a great day.

meanwhile, you see that phish box or that jack white liquid-filled 12 inch, make sure to snap them up!

It's a good excuse to dedicate the day to browsing every store in NYC that I can. I like seeing happy store owners. I figure there's a chance that places put some effort into throwing some fresh used stuff on the shelves today, too.

someone came in my store and said that at the turn it up in northampton they had 4 copies of the phish box and when those were gone the crowd dwindled considerably. and everyone who comes in basically asks for the phish thing. and across the street at newbury it was mobbed with lines apparently for the phish box. so, if you are in noho go to turn it up cuz everyone's at newbury.

had a nice day visiting intoxica, honest jons, bm, phonica, sounds of the universe. biggest queues i saw were at sister ray (round the block) and rough trade west (the same) so I avoided those. scored the Numero comp, some old jimmy webb, barry white and glen campbell vinyl. good work record stores.

I just spent way the hell too much at AKA in Philadelphia- got the MC5/Afrika Bambaataa 7", School of Seven Bells Siouxsie cover 7", the Domino Smugglers Way thing, the Animal Collective and Sacred Bones LPs, a Lee Hazlewood best-of 2xLP on Light in the Attic, and the Cleaners from Venus CD box set. Apparently they never got the Flaming Lips album, which sucks, but if any of these are going to be easy to find later it'll be that one.

Yeah, they had a stack of them up by the counter. I only knew about the vinyl so I bought it on the off chance that it was a RSD exclusive. It's not, though (they just put out all the Cleaners stuff to coincide with RSD), so you're not missing out if you didn't get it.

Well the vinyl box was available online for awhile to preorder. Now it says "unavailable," which is vague because that's also how they label not yet released items, maybe just temporary items as well. So I don't know if it is only available at stores that happened to order it. What is officially RSD exclusive though is getting the albums from the box individually.

man, my friend chris came in just now with the grateful dead dark star thing and i didn't even know about that one. that's the first thing i've seen that i would even want. he got his for 15 and they are going for 50 or 60 right now on ebay. but aside from that, it looks cool! new old dead for 15 bucks. now that is something i can get behind. plus, whole record of dark star. what's not to love?

he got it at the turn it up store that nobody goes to. great place to snag rsd stuff.

ok, i got hooked and went in. i bought a bunch of stuff--only some of it RSD exclusives. of RSD stuff i got that nutty buck owens coloring book (why not?), windy & carl LP (limited to 250 copies! green vinyl!), a pussy galore 7", misfits "walk among us" LP ---- and, yeah, i bought one of those phish vinyl boxes. i'll flip it in a few days.

well i already have that album in some form so yeah i guess i'll flip it. maybe i'll wait a few weeks or months?

btw i posted that buck owens thing on eBay just to see what would happen (i assumed nobody would care) but, uh, i sold it in 30 minutes for 4x what i paid for it. i'm gonna go get me some more of those.

i feel guilty typing this, but what the hell. i spent several 1,000x what the average person spends on records, so i've done my part to keep this particular economic niche going.

I'm heading out myself right now. It's funny, in years past, I actually did get up early enough on my Saturday morning to get to my closest record store (which is three blocks away from me) right around the open. This year I couldn't really be bothered. But honestly the only things I am really that excited about are the Lee Hazlewood and Greatful Dead lps. And at least in the case of the Lee, I am sure that thing is going to be around forever, so no real rush.

La Lech, what is your plan? I'm going to my local store -- Record Breakers -- right now, then over the Numero Group pop-up. Then I'm going to try to catch the first part of Otis Clay @ Dusty and then run over to Bloodiest at Reckless

I'm going to Permanent to see if they still have Circle release (if so, great, if not w/e I am at a record store), then Saki for Runnies at 8, then CAVE at EB. Modest. Would love to see Bloodiest -- I missed them last night because this weekend could have yielded 4 nights in a row of shows I want to see and that's, I dunno, a bit much. I'll show (1) ounce of restraint.

I might try to hit Cave later on, cuz i love them. but will see how my stamina is at that point. I mean I'd probably come home to the south side in the evening, and then have to come back up to the Bottle. Which kind of sucks. but we'll see.

I think my all-time records for shows in a row was something like 7 days! a year or two ago, I'd have to go back in my google calendar to check. but I remember that being one of the best, if most tiring, weeks of my life!

There was still a line out the door at 1:30 at Red Onion DC. Didn't go in -- SOM had a bunch of the cooler (if more common) stuff and was also doing a brisk business. The WTNG yacht rock comp is pretty good, only RSD item I got.

I'm still sort of conflicted about the whole thing: If this is needed to give indie shops a boost, then more power to them and make it happen. It keeps them open the other 51 Saturday for the folks not just chasing the eBay-focused stuff.

torn on ordering a copy of the Lee Perry for $90. on one hand, i want it and don't think i'll get it cheaper. on the other, i hate people who buy shit to flip on ebay. the seller is affiliated with a record store. is there anyway to turn him in and get his store blacklisted from RSD releases?

2nd Hand Tunes was not busy, and they didn't have any RSD releases I wanted, but they did bring me a stool to stand on and I * bought 4 good records* had a nice convo with a young lady looking for Soft Machine records* jib jabbed with the clerk about Tangerine Dream and awesome soundtracks, directed him to the copy of the Foxes sdtk sitting in his store

Hit up End of an Ear and Waterloo Records here... got the School of Seven Bells and M83 45s, and the Captured Tracks Wake tribute 45, which isn't really an RSD exclusive. Would have liked the Beach House 45, but it was long gone by after lunch when we showed up. Some other stuff was still available but I saw the prices and was like go fuck yourself. $45 for 4x7" box set? A 7" single for $14? Single LP releases for $24? Come on.

got up early this morning, like around 7, got up to seattle by 8:30 or so. after i got there, i decided i just didn't want to deal with crowds, lol, so i spent the morning walking around and drinking coffee instead. nice day. finally made it to the record store at 11 or so, by which time there was still a decent (smallish) crowd and basically no super-snazzy swag left. some guy playing folky indie rock in the back when i got there, switched out for a synthpop dj after 20 minutes or so. pretty cool vibe, really.

i bought a cleaners from venus lp (never heard them before, they're great!), and a few used records, only spent about 30 bucks.

Got into Cactus before the mid-day temp shutdown for the Evanescence (!?!?) meet'n'greet. Got the Buck Owens book, which was an ouchie $24.95, and the lady in front of me let me see her copy of the "Dark Star" album ($19.95 here).

I've missed the last few RSDs, and thus was sort of shocked how uncomfortable mere shopping was. This was already early afternoon and there were still people everywhere. There was a line running through the store, so you had to keep excuseing yourself to people just look in the racks. Eventually I just gave up and joined them. Made me miss the first couple years before it became a "thing" and the hang-out atmosphere was encouraged (all-day dj sets and instores, less "me-first" exclusives).

According to the Rough Trade East guys, the Flaming Lips, Bowie, and Kate Bush stuff sold out right away. I really wanted the Flaming Lips album, but I didn't get there at 8am, so I was SOL. The Cure reissues were £24.99, which seems a little steep - a lot of the classic reissue 7"s (Dead Boys, Flamin' Groovies, stuff like that) were £7, which is nuts, too.

I picked up the Unrest 7" box, walked toward the register and turned around and put it back. It was $53. Too much mulah for that one. I got the White Stripes 7", Lee Hazlewood, Mclusky, Flaming Lips 2lp, and that was it. Didn't really want anything else. I wish I could have seen that School of Seven Bells, but no luck.

i did end up swinging by my local earlier this evening, decided i could at spend some money on other stuff now that the crowds died down. dude working said the Feistodon, Flaming Lips, and White Stripes stuff were the first to go, all within minutes.

Yo Sleeve, thank you so much! I will be in touch. That comp you are referring to (it's on Three Lobed) -- I bought a copy myself at DustyGroove, and they still had like 5 copies. I am going to very strongly guess that they'll still have it tomorrow -- when they will be 'allowed' to sell it online via RSD 'rules'. I am way too lazy to get back over and get u one now, but lemme see if I can snag it online in the morning -- will swap it w/ u for the Dead thing

Currently @ empty bottle after the Numero group record fair -- wow, so many cheap records! Cave is soundchecking and they sound amazing. New song I've never heard which sounds very pink floyd. Chicagoans who are going are in for a treat, but I am exhausted and will prolly head home. Btw all taps have been invaded by Lagunitas, and they have the double IPA 'Waldo' on tap. It is delicious

PooBah's had filed all the RSD stuff in the regular vinyl bins, so I couldn't check out all they had easily. Did notice some of the 45s (Byrds, Gene Clark, and a few others on Sundazed and Columbia). Also saw the Lee Hazlewood LP, but no Flaming Lips. Was going to be a hero and get the LPs requested here, but couldn't remember which had been mentioned (the Lee Perry). Good thing, because I was not alone in heroicness, I guess. Not crowded, no lines, and I did get a few used CDs and a couple free LPs (they have 4 or 5 free LP bins outside the door. No ribs, damnit, but they said a couple performers would be there at 6.

Psychic Teens (all the way from Philly!) at Permanent Records Chicago was pretty sweet tonight - Really dug 'em, and their rekkid is great! Didn't get any exclusives really, save a couple Sundazed singles & the Trouble in Mind label split. Line for midnight opening at Permanent last night was a hundred deep @ 11:30 - screw that noise! Guess I'm not the diehard I thought I was! I'm moving to a new pad soon, so less rekkids to move is probably a good thing...wish I had the energy for Cave tonight, but I'm sure I'll see 'em soon again... I hope RSD2012 was a success for all that participated - recognition of the 'record store as cultural center' is always good.

yeah, not withstanding my internet whining about limited release pricing, the vibe was pretty good at the shops today. tons of people, food and drinks (didn't see any live stuff but I'm sure it was going on)... the cashiers looked a little harried, but then christmas at the bookstore was like that too, and we kind of dug it, as exhausting as it was.

I was a sucker and preordered it. It's beautifully put together, and Mark hand wrote a little note inside for me! This is how the original came, as a 7" box. Each record is a different color, and there is a nice booklet inside. I don't regret it!

My local store also stocked RSD stuff in the regular racks, but put a bright orange sticker on the top so items could be easily identified. It did make things a lot more orderly than in previous years.

When it was originally released, I know I picked up a copy of the first 6ths album, which was a boxed set of 7" singles - or rather, 6 6/6" singles, as they billed it, iirc. With a couple of bonus tracks. Re: Unrest, I have a copy of the first Air Miami LP as a 45rpm double LP with lock grooves after each track.

Frankly, I wish Record Store Day offered more cool stuff and less limited for the sake of stuff. I don't give a poop if something is appearing on vinyl for the first time - or reappearing for the first time in ages. I want unreleased stuff, period, not just this collector-bait repackaging. Last year the treasure hunt aspect attracted me to the Big Star set. This year, nothing brought me out of the house.

Wanted to get the F Lips LP but my local store was out by the time I got there. Just heard a few tracks and was bummed to hear that it sounds a bit distorted/over modulated the same way that "Embryonic"'sounded. Glad in retrospectthat I didn't drop 40.00 on it.

Was going to say... between that and the Unrest set everyone here is giving me a little buyers remorse. If you're saying the 3 Cleaners LPs were $52.00 all together if bought individually than I guess I spent $14 on a pin, a photo, and an outer box.

Not sure jon - I wouldn't necessarily expect so, at least not in the immediate future.

Didn't think so. Very disappointing. I mean, keep the vinyl as an exclusive thing, but I'd love a digital release or something. This is why I get frustrated by limited releases of brand new music that is solely available on RSD, here I am a willing customer wanting to throw money at you, but I can't.

Wait, there was a Chuck Prophet record too? Okay, that's pretty funny.

I'm a sucker for the lock groove. No way I could have made it into any shop over the weekend due to work, so I fess up to sourcing my copy on the net. I don't feel any guilt whatsoever tho, since - for reasons probably already mentioned in this thread which I've not read entirely - someone's record store made the sale initially, and I personally celebrate record store day about 30 times annually.

Yeah their store is in a pretty random seeming suburb, though relatively close to New Haven. They have a pretty nice selection usually. I last saw them with a table at Novembers WFMU record fair. I was helping Todd (booker for Maxwell's and Bell House in Brooklyn) with his table.

Stormy, sent you an email through here but haven't figured out where i'd receive a reply yet. haven't done correspondance through the site before...anyway, i'm eager to pay you for picking up the Lee Perry for me. send me an invoice on paypal (b g e o g h a g a n) at hotmail or let me know how you want payment. thanks!

sent from my gmail account. Weird that you didn't receive it -- maybe in your spam folder?? I didn't see the email you sent through ILX until now, because it is linked to an account I don't use as often. But I'll email through ILX as well

From Paste newsletter piece (by Taylor Kane) on National Record Store Day x Black Friday releases/specials:

The Rolling Stones are set to release their first EP on 7”, which will include “Bye Bye Johnny,” “Money,” “You’d Better Move On” and “Poison Ivy (version 2).” My Morning Jacket is set to release the It Makes No Difference live recording on 10”, which was recorded at the Newport Folk Festival Tribute to Levon Helm. The recording features Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes. The White Stripes are set to release three singles including “Hotel Yorba (Live at Hotel Yorba)” b/w “Rated X”, which is set to be pressed on opaque red vinyl. “Rated X” is a cover of a 1972 Loretta Lynn song. The Lumineers are releasing a 10” EP titled The Winter, which will follow up the band’s debut.

“Five years ago when Record Store Day helped, and guided, the re-launch of vinyl we had no idea where it was going. Looking at this year’s wonderful vinyl offerings, youcan see just how far we’ve come. There are some real treasures in here,” said Michael Kurtz, co-founder and organizer of Record Store Day.

The event expects to announce more releases as the event gets closer, so keep checking back for more details. Black Friday falls on Nov. 23 of this year.

Legendary Japanese trio Boris announce a limited edition split 7" with recent tour mates Asobi Seksu available as a Record Store Day exclusive release on Black Friday, November 23, 2012. Additionally, Boris post new headlining tour dates in the UK and EU, as well as appearances at All Tomorrow's Parties in the UK and State-X New Forms Festival in Holland. See dates below.

The forthcoming split single features each band covering a song by the other. Asobi Seksu takes on Boris' majestic "Farewell" off of their Pink album, while Boris reworks "New Years" from Asobi Seksu's Citrus album here as "Neu Years", a churning dream pop gem. The vinyl edition includes a download card with 4 additional classic songs from both bands.

Iconoclast trio Boris are widely known for their ability to breach styles and stretch sonic boundaries of all that is heavy, psychedelic, droning and downright cathartic. Their last three albums -- Attention Please, Heavy Rocks and New Album, all released in 2011 via Sargent House -- are perfect testament to the band's vast abilities. Over the span of two decades, the trio, bassist/vocalist Takeshi, guitarist/vocalist Wata and drummer/vocalist Atsuo has issued nearly 20 studio albums, as well as numerous collaborative albums -- including projects with Merzbow, Sunn0))), Ian Astbury and Michio Kurihara of Ghost (who also currently tours with the band as second guitarist) -- EPs and singles on various labels throughout the world.

American dream pop band Asobi Seksu is widely known for their shoegaze influenced effect-laden sound. Since their beginning in 2001, the band led by vocalist/keyboardist Yuki Chikudate and guitarist/vocalist James Hanna has released four albums and various singles. Their most recent album, Fluorescence (Polyvinyl) hit shelves on Valentine's Day 2011 to much critical acclaim. Asobi Seksu toured supporting Boris in the fall of that year, cementing the friendship between the two bands leading up to this endeavor of mutual admiration covering each others' songs.

Years ago someone told me that 1,200 high school kids were given a survey. A question was posed to them: Have you ever been to a stand-alone record shop? The number of kids that answered "yes" was... zero.

Zero? How could that be possible? Then I got realistic and thought to myself, "Can you blame them?" How can record shops (or any shop for that matter) compete with Netflix, TiVo, video games that take months to complete, cable, texting, the Internet, etc. etc? Getting out of your chair at home to experience something in the real world has started to become a rare occurrence, and to a lot of people, an unnecessary one. Why go to a bookstore and get a real book? You can just download it. Why talk to other human beings, discuss different authors, writing styles and influences? Just click your mouse. Well here's what they'll someday learn if they have a soul; there's no romance in a mouse click. There's no beauty in sitting for hours playing video games (anyone proud of that stop reading now and post your opinion in the nearest forum). The screen of an iPhone is convenient, but it’s no comparison to a 70mm showing of a film in a gorgeous theater. The Internet is two-dimensional…helpful and entertaining, but no replacement for face-to-face interaction with a human being. But we all know all of that, right? Well, do we? Maybe we know all that, but so what?

Let's wake each other up.

The world hasn't stopped moving. Out there, people are still talking to each other face-to-face, exchanging ideas and turning each other on. Art houses are showing films, people are drinking coffee and telling tall tales, women and men are confusing each other and record stores are selling discs full of soul that you haven’t felt yet. So why do we choose to hide in our caves and settle for replication? We know better. We should at least. We need to re-educate ourselves about human interaction and the difference between downloading a track on a computer and talking to other people in person and getting turned onto music that you can hold in your hands and share with others. The size, shape, smell, texture and sound of a vinyl record; how do you explain to that teenager who doesn't know that it's a more beautiful musical experience than a mouse click? You get up off your ass, you grab them by the arm and you take them there. You put the record in their hands. You make them drop the needle on the platter. Then they'll know.

Let's wake each other up.

As Record Store Day Ambassador of 2013 I’m proud to help in any way I can to invigorate whoever will listen with the idea that there is beauty and romance in the act of visiting a record shop and getting turned on to something new that could change the way they look at the world, other people, art, and ultimately, themselves.

UGGGGGGH. So insufferable. I love the White Stripes but GOD just SHUT UP!!! Yes the romance and beauty of records. If you like records so much why don't you marry records?

Mainly i'm jealous, cos obviously who wouldn't want their own record plant? Stuff like those x-ray records is exactly what i was trying to figure out how to do 2-3 years ago but JW beat me to the punch.

But really i just can't help taking this guy down a peg from his high horse. Videogames are bad because they detach you from other people? Perhaps JW has never played multiplayer, or visited an arcade? While we're there you may as well make the argument that RECORDS detach you from other people. Unless you hang out in a record store all day, you are probably going to buy the record and then take it home and listen to it by yourself. Shockingly, this is about the same amount of real human interaction that will happen with the consumption on a videogame. Finally there is the matter that a record is a simulated experience with another person. You are not seeing the musician beyond the album cover. You do not get to interact with him anymore than you get to interact with the designer of a videogame. If videogames are a false experience of the real world then recorded music is a false experience of musical performance.

Totally agree with you. Jack White is so full of himself, it is nauseating sometimes. I guess when your whole schtick is vinyl and producing/recording, you can't see the benefit of other forms of media having the same effect on people as records do i.e. video games.

Mainly i'm jealous, cos obviously who wouldn't want their own record plant? Stuff like those x-ray records is exactly what i was trying to figure out how to do 2-3 years ago but JW beat me to the punch.

The Jesus and Mary Chain's essential 1985 debut, Psychocandy, will be reissued in a "paint splatter" vinyl edition for this year's Record Store Day (April 20), according to the band's Facebook page. Limited to just 1,000 copies, this pressing will come packaged with a reproduction of an early JAMC gig poster. As of now, it's unclear if this new version of the fuzzed out masterpiece will be a U.K.-exclusive.

Other treasures planned for Record Store Day include Stephen Malkmus' full-length cover of Can's 1972 album Ege Bamyasi, a reprinting of Hüsker Dü's first single, and a new Sub Pop compilation, among others. As previously reported, Record Store Day 2013's official film selection is the star-studded documentary Last Shop Standing; this year's ambassador is none other than reputed analog lover Jack White; and the vinyl holiday's official poster features Jimi Hendrix. It all sounds so sweet, just like honey.

March 1, 2013 - (Burbank, CA) - Warner Bros. Records, an official sponsor of Record Store Day has announced its annual participation featuring a series of vinyl albums and singles available on Saturday April 20th exclusively in honor of everyone's favorite holiday: a celebration of the unique culture surrounding over 1,000 independently owned record stores in the U.S., and hundreds of similar stores internationally.

We are excited to reveal that our very special, limited-edition, exclusive releases are as follows:

The A-side is the studio track Carry On, which is featured in Activision's video game Call of Duty: Black Ops II. This song was written specifically for the game and released on Sept. 25, 2012. The B-side features the instrumental version which has been previously unreleased. This picture disc is limited and features the Call of Duty: Black Ops II artwork and Avenged Sevenfold's Deathbat.

Avenged Sevenfold "Live in the LBC & Diamonds in the Rough"

12" vinyl LP and DVD Deluxe Edition - Limited to 3500 copies

For Record Store Day 2013, on the 5 year anniversary of the Live in the LBC performance, we have produced a limited vinyl/DVD configuration, pressed on vinyl for the first time in a deluxe gatefold jacket and mastered by Bernie Grundman. This release contains both the first live concert film from Avenged Sevenfold "Live in the LBC" filmed live on April 10, 2008 as well as "Diamonds in the Rough", an offering of previously unreleased B-sides and more. The CD/DVD configuration was released September 16, 2008 and has since been certified Platinum.

Biffy Clyro: "Black Chandelier" 7" EP - Limited to 2,000 copies

Pressed on limited-edition black and clear splattered vinyl for the first time and featuring an energetic and unreleased live performance of the new single Black Chandelier from the new Opposites album. This was recorded at Kaufleuten, Zurich-Switzerland on January 19, 2013. Also features a previously unreleased B-side, City of Dreadful Night.

This year's Side by Side Vinyl Series features The Stooges '69 classic track on one side and The Black Keys updated 2002 take on the flip side pressed on orange & red sunburst vinyl. Very Limited so grab it before it's gone for good.

Nonesuch Records releases Nomad, from the Tuareg guitarist, singer, and songwriter Omara "Bombino" Moctar and his band, on April 2nd. The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach, who just won the GRAMMY Award for Producer of the Year, helmed the recording at his Nashville studio, Easy Eye Sound. On Record Store Day, Nonesuch will release a 10" with the album track "Azamane Tiliade" and an exclusive non-album B-side, "Si Chilan."Mastered at Bernie Grundman Studios and pressed by Pirates Press, which means it sounds real good.

An absolutely stunning collection of seminal Built To Spill songs recorded live during the band's 1999 "Keep It Like A Secret" tour. Originally released on April 18, 2000, on both vinyl (on Up Records) and CD (on Warner Bros. Records). The vinyl configuration initially contained two bonus tracks "Forget Remember When" and "Now and Then," which have now been included on the limited-edition CD in celebration of this release and Record Store Day. Naturally, it's cut for vinyl at Bernie Grundman Mastering especially for your sonic delight.

Cream: "Live at the Royal Albert Hall" Three-disc vinyl LP box set with book Deluxe Edition - Limited to 1,500 copies

A sensational and historic reunion concert performed and recorded May 2, 3, 5, & 6 in 2005 and released for the first time in October of that same year - released on DVD, CD, and vinyl. Now available for the first time in over five years and for the first time ever, we have produced a limited edition of this box set on CREAM-colored vinyl in celebration of Record Store Day 2013 and this important recording. Half Speed mastering from Stan Ricker for the ultimate audiophile quality.

Another RSD Exclusive 12"-vinyl EP includes digital download card. Details forthcoming but suffice to say, this is wondrous stuff. This one-time-only 12" artifact was made just for you and will disappear fast. You know what to do.

Songs from Adrenaline hand-picked by Deftones and recorded live at Memorial Auditorium in Buffalo, New York, on Oct. 13, 1996. The initial release in a series of seven vinyl exclusive releases with the first release being a Record Store Day exclusive and the last planned to be a Black Friday independent exclusive retail release. Finally, the light of day has come.Cut for vinyl by Bernie Grundman at Bernie Grundman Mastering Studios from the original live analog sources and pressed on both 120- and 180-gram highest-quality vinyl at Record Technology Inc.

Eli "Paperboy" Reed is an emerging talent who already has two albums under his belt, 2008's Roll With You and 2010's Come & Get It, which earned the soul singer an especially loyal fan following in Europe - so much so that Reed was nominated as "Breakthrough Artist of the Year" by Britain's Mojo magazine. For the singer's upcoming Warner Bros. debut album, Eli takes his affinity for classic Chicago soul and blends it with a newfound respect for modern pop music. The result is a collection of songs that extend far beyond his neo-Motown roots. In the meantime, this release features a new song, "WooHoo,"and a reinterpreted version of Robyn's "Call Your Girlfriend," aptly titled "Call Your Boyfriend."

Fans and critics agree that this is one of the most important and invigorating experimental albums in contemporary pop music. Four discs, designed to be played on cue and simultaneously, producing nothing short of a symphonic experience. Re-mastered by the band especially for this release at Bernie Grundman Mastering in celebration of this record and Record Store Day 2013, with unique art and packaging limited to this release. Once these are gone...they are GONE.

Over 20 minutes of music and performance mastery available for the first time in all of its analog glory. Vol. 2 features a blistering live performance of "When My Train Comes In" as well as a studio version of the track off his hit album Blak And Blu. A beautifully crafted limited edition offering mastered at 45 rpm and cut by Bernie Grundman Mastering for maximum vibes.

Iron and Wine makes its Nonesuch Records debut with Ghost on Ghost in the U.S. on April 16. Ghost on Ghostis the fifth release from singer-songwriter Sam Beam, using the pen name Iron and Wine. The album was produced by Beam's longtime associate Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Califone, Fruit Bats). This special 7" includes two exclusive tracks unavailable anywhere else but on this lovely one time only pressing just for RSD. Cut by, you guessed it, Bernie Grundman and pressed at Pallas MFG (Diepholz, Germany) for your supreme listening pleasure.

The arresting debut album that came to be known by fans and critics alike as one of The Premiere Albums of The Decade! Originally released on October 24, 2000, the album has sold over 10 million copies in the United States alone, where it has since been certified Diamond. Around the world, the album would also garner Multiple Platinum status in over a dozen countries. Hybrid Theory still stands as a contemporary classic in the world of modern rock and alternative music. The bonus 10" EP contains the tracks "One Step Closer" and "My December". This pressing will also contain long out of print poster and original street team sticker re-productions.Here it is reissued on vinyl for the first time in over a decade and cut by Bernie Grundman Mastering to insure the highest possible audio standard.

Another Record Store Day Exclusive masterpiece from this critically loved and incomparable songwriter and vocalist LP captured completely live without overdubs just the way nature intended. Originally on CD only, this first-time vinyl pressing contains a previously unavailable bonus track "It's Over." Her Warner Bros. debut album will be released later this year.Your friends at Bernie Grundman mastered this with you in mind.

Punch Brothers: "Ahoy!" 33 1/3 rpm Vinyl EP - Quantity N/A

Nonesuch Records released Punch Brothers' five-song EP Ahoy! digitally and on CD last November. Now on vinyl for the first time, the EP has been pressed on 10" vinyl for Record Store Day, and includes songs by Josh Ritter ("Another New World"), Gillian Welch and David Rawlings ("Down Along the Dixie Line"), Punch Brothers ("Squirrel of Possibility"), and Mclusky ("Icarus Smicarus"), along with one traditional tune, arranged by Punch Brothers ("Moonshiner"). Originallyrecorded during the Nashville sessions for their critically acclaimed 2012 album Who's Feeling Young Now?, these tracks were produced by Jacquire King (Kings of Leon, Tom Waits, Modest Mouse). Cut by Chris Bellman (Bernie Grundman Studios) and pressed at Pallas MFG (Diepholz, Germany) because, sound matters!

Surfer Blood: "Demon Dance" One disc Colored Vinyl 7" EP - Limited to 5,000A special early look at Surfer Blood's new album PYTHONS, out June 11th featuring the single "Demon Dance" and another previously unreleased album track "Slow Six" pressed on exclusive tri colored- Navy, Blue and White vinyl.

An exclusive selection of remixes of the hit single "Closer" from Tegan and Sara's revered new album Heartthrob, assembled and released on vinyl in celebration of the album, as special thanks to fans and independent record stores on Record Store Day 2013. Closer Remixed includes 10 exclusive remixes of the new single by Sultan & Ned Shepard, Morgan Page, Until The Ribbon Breaks, The Knocks, Bradley Hale, Yeasayer, Chris Walla, Damian Taylor, Ted Gowans and C-ro & Sofa.

Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me & Blue Sunshine colored vinyl for RSDWe've had a hint from Steven Severin, and a couple of listings, but it now looks like we're one step closer to getting confirmation that 'Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me' & 'Blue Sunshine' will get the individually numbered & colored vinyl treatment for Record Store Day 2013 on April 20th, 2013.

Update: Slicing Up Eyeballs has articles about 'Kiss Me' and 'Blue Sunshine', and Wax Poetic says both of these are confirmed for US release. and will most likely be available in the UK, too, though that is not confirmed yet.

NUMERO ANNOUNCES 2013 INTERATION OF RECORD STORE DAY "POP UP" STORE AND FULL EXCLUSIVE RELEASE PLANS

For the third year in a row, the Numero Group will "pop up" on Record Store Day as a retail store. Much vitriol and hate has been spewed at us in the past for our circumvention of "the rules," and since we're gluttons for punishment (but really because we're slaves to our fans) we're loading up our cars and renting tables in hopes of breaking last year's record of 1062 entrants. While last year's bonanza found us occupying the the Empty Bottle's 3000 square feet, we've opted for a smaller and more low key space this year. Meet the Comfort Station:

Located triangularly at the intersections of Kedzie/Milwaukee/Logan Blvd, this turn of the century park district way station has been hosting left field artists for the last half decade. We've been drawn to the building for years, marveling at its odd size and multiple points of entry on our way to $3 movies at the Logan Theater. Last year's event was a massive success, but also a massive headache-we're hoping this cozier space leads to a more enjoyable experience for both Numero and our customers.We'll have every Numero record that is currently in print, plus the following "exclusive" Record Store Day items:

NUM704 Hüsker Dü: Amusement 2x7"

NUM202.1 Giant Henry: Big Baby LP

NUM201.5 Codeine: What About The Lonely? CD/LP

Additionally, we'll be manufacturing several items you can only buy at Comfort Station that day: NUM025.5 24-Carat Black: Acetate picture disc 10"

This "acetate" features four songs from our 24-Carat Black tape archive that were scorched beyond use on 2009's Gone: The Promises of Yesterday LP/CD. But given the quality of the songs, we've always felt that the material should be available for the sake of posterity alone. Now, in an edition of 500 copies, you too can experience the sorrow we felt as the source tape disintegrated in front of our eyes. All the drop-outs, hiss, warble, and degradation can be yours by attending our pop-up store on April 20th 2013.

We're also making a series of mix tapes by the working staff of the Numero Group. Ken, Tom, Rob, Zach, Jon, Nate, Dustin, Leland, Michael, and Haley have created 40 minute themed mixes of their favorite released and unreleased Numero songs. Each tape is limited to 20 copies and will be sold for $5. All proceeds go to the Numero RSD lunch fund.

In addition to our own junk, we'll have a handful of tables filled with rare, weird, and cheap LPs, 45s, tapes. For the third year in a row, we are not recommending that you only attend our store on Record Store Day. You should definitely visit Reckless (3 locations), Dusty Groove, Permanent, Laurie's Planet of Sound, Dave's, Jazz Record Mart, and Saki, which will have all of our non-pop up store RSD goods. So, where are you going to start queueing up at 7AM on April 20th 2013?

We at Sub Pop will celebrate the hallowed musical holiday known as Record Store Day with a trinity of releases, available on April 20th.

Leading the pack is the almighty Shearwater, who joined forces with friend, tour-mate and Jagjaguwar recording artist Sharon Van Etten to release the “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” b/w “A Wake for the Minotaur” single, a limited-edition, 2013 Record Store Day exclusive. “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” was originally recorded for an AV Club “Undercover” session, and is, of course, a cover of the 1981 duet by Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty; while “A Wake for the Minotaur” is a new, previously-unreleased original. The 7” is housed in a handsome double-gatefold sleeve that must be seen to be believed (and then purchased and owned to truly be enjoyed).

Secondly, Record Store Day is the release date for Sub Pop 1000, a limited-edition compilation of what we feel are some of today’s most vital artists from around the world. Sub Pop 1000 is comprised entirely of unreleased and exclusive tracks, and will be available digitally and on dazzling colored vinyl in a limited edition of 5,000 copies. The LP will include an 11"x11" booklet and a MP3 download coupon. Sub Pop 1000 was inspired by our landmark 1986 compilation, Sub Pop 100, which championed such groundbreaking artists as Sonic Youth, Wipers and The U-Men.

Lastly but not leastly, Terminal Sales, Vol. 6: The Silver Ticket is our 2013 label sampler. It’s a free, 19-track CD sampler featuring a heaping helping of new and in some cases somewhat rare tracks from the likes of Low, Shabazz Palaces, Mudhoney, Father John Misty, Still Corners, Pissed Jeans, Daughn Gibson, and 13 others. In keeping with Sub Pop tradition, the sampler is extravagantly packaged and will likely conjure thoughts like, “Wow!” and, “What were they thinking, giving this away for free?”

Flying Nun and Captured Tracks are putting out National Record Store Day specials, re reissues of The Bata and Snapper. Too many individual links to cutnpaste right now, but this will lead you to the info and streams (with a bunch of other NZ stuff on these same YouTube pages)http://eepurl.com/xeTAf

I finally found something that I'm kind of excited about: original Kramer version of Damon & Naomi's "Wondrous World." Assuming it lives up to the description, could be pretty great. I love "New York City," which is pretty much the only track that keeps the over-the-top-Kramer sound from their first album, and I never liked the stripped down folksy side of them as much.

we will not be selling die-hard limited-edition 200 gram virgin blue vinyl death cab for cutie BBC session sound-check 10 inches on record store day or any RSD vinyl on that day but we will be selling records. we suggest that you go to one of the turn it up stores in the area or newbury comix or in the moment in brattleboro if you are interested in that kinda thing. wait, when is RSD again? at JDJR every day is record store day. i know its coming up though cuz i'm already getting calls. i have to explain that we are on the RSD website just so the Japanese know where to find us. hey, it works, don't knock it!

or for me this year- the day where you email a slightly less insanely crowded record store a few weeks beforehand, ask them to hold things for you that you'll definitely be there to buy, and then walk up at 3pm to pay on the day looking all smug. obviously not possible in places with one record shop.

Third Man is unveiling their rehabbed "Voice-o-Graph machine that records up to 2 minutes of audio and dispenses a one-of-a-kind 6" phonograph disc to the user". I imagine the line for that will be crazy long on Saturday, but I may drop in next time I'm through Nashville.

In Nottingham, the queue started at 2230 Friday night. Fopp staff joined at 1am Saturday morning, the slackers. When I joined at 805, there were about 150 ahead of me. Shop staff were on hand to give state of play reports on specific stock levels, which was useful. The cafe opposite opened specially at 6am, and breakfasters were allowed to keep their places in the queue - cafe staff were also coming out to the queue, and taking/serving drinks orders. I got in the shop at 1020. At least half of my wish list had already gone, but I topped up with some impulse purchases and left content.

Our record shop (The Music Exchange) is run as a social enterprise, staffed by volunteer clients from a city-based homelessness charity, and RSD cash helps them stay solvent for the rest of the year, so I was happy to splurge out on a rarely bought format. A pleasant morning.

sub pop 1000 sounds cool. don't know most of the bands, but love his electro blue voice and peaking lights, have enjoyed iron lung live. someone buy that one for me. and groovy hate fuck reissue would be fun (though i've got the vinyl drip lp that comps it with most of feel good and pussy gold, so w/e). but what's this about bardo pond doing "maggot brain"?!? holy shit, need to hear that. not necessarily own, but hear.

AKA didn't have most of what I was looking for, and I didn't feel like more driving/parking/meter feeding to stand in more lines. It seems like this could be really fun as a social thing, but I don't really have any friends who buy music or even have similar taste, and I don't need to spend this money anyway.

Picked up the two Oval reissues, the Get On Down 909 flexidisc/booklet, and Bisch Bosch, which I'd been putting off. Found but didn't buy the King Midas Sound 12" (there's no way I can justify $15 for a two-track single) and the Glove reissue (same re: $35 for something I already own on CD). I would have loved to find the Sacred Bones releases (third annual sampler, Moon Duo remixes) but those will probably be orderable from the label; I'm more annoyed at not finding the Factory Floor repress, Evian Christ 12", Beak> 10" and Caribou represses.

yeah, i saw that. someone's selling one for $60 bucks. fuck that. checked the fire site, and while they don't list the print run (or if they do, i missed it), they do say that copies may be available for mail order tomorrow. here's hoping...

My dude at Long In The Tooth had most of what I desired (he was out of the Black Keys / Stooges split, Deep Purple/Type-O split and never got the Half Japanese on CD) but the prices were ridiculous. It is hard to justify paying $10 for a 7".

Especially insulting was the Atmosphere single, which came in a clear, plastic sleeve. No artwork, not even a fucking sticker on it, no packaging whatsoever, just a single in a plastic sleeve. Ten bucks. Sorry, but fuck you.

I asked him to keep that along with the Non-Phixion 7" and the Pussy Galore LP (it just wasn't worth $20 to me).

I also picked up the new Moss CD new and a couple of used CDs plus my wife picked up a couple books. All told I dropped a little over $100.

The guy who owns the store was hoarse and haggard by the time I got there. He said it was nuts - they had to let people into the store in shifts and they had a line of about 80 people most of the afternoon.

Good for him, good for all the stores, but if RSD means 7" singles will cost $10, I probably won't be making a special trip again next year.

not sure about in the us, but the b. russell curated flying nun comp has been out in nz for awhile, i believe (he did a really interesting interview on national radio playing various bits and pieces from it)

really nice day in soho, in london, with a street party vibe. giles smith was playing and loads of other big names. nice sunny day and a great atmosphere. fuck shops that aren't record stores getting a dj in with some "yay record store day" premise tho - just so contrary to the point of the event.

So I am extremely upset! The Snapper record I got the hole is too small for the spindle, and I may be paranoid but I'm nervous they won't have a replacement at the label. They definitely don't at the store I bought it from.

And the used CDs too - I've picked up lots of good stuff there for cheap. I try to support them as much as possible, though I tend to download most of my music these days - trying to downsize my physical collection.

Yes and no. Prices in the store match a competitive price point on amazon (for the CDs, here) when uploaded to the online amazon storefront, so therefore if something happens to be at $39.99 "Used - Like New" at the time of the upload that's the kind of price you'll see in the store. No matter how silly or indie it is. See the real issue here is that they have software that updates the price when they fluctuate online, as they often do, but new labels don't automatically print for the physical storefront and your foot-traffic consumers get screwed over just because you wanted to make as much as possible in the online worldwide market. It barely filters based on what makes a better physical store item vs. online money-maker when setting prices.

But yes, ultimately this same process will put $1.99 price tags on great stuff, simply because it is the going rate at that point on amazon.

So I am extremely upset! The Snapper record I got the hole is too small for the spindle, and I may be paranoid but I'm nervous they won't have a replacement at the label. They definitely don't at the store I bought it from.

uh, this is something you can correct w/ a pocketknife and a bit of rotary force

gaye bykers on acid's debut lp, drill you own hole, allegedly came undrilled, so that you'd have to, uh, yeah, do that. drill it yourself. never seen an undrilled or even a hand-drilled copy, so i wonder...

I never had a problem with holes being too tight but I recently got a new pro-ject turntable and have run into a bunch of old records that are a really tight fit. I think some brands are making their spindles too big these days.

I went to the princeton record exchange for NRSD and bought a bunch of non-record store day stuff, including Centipede HZ on vinyl. It was cool to see the place packed like that though. There was a guy there with Super Bowl tattoos on his face standing off in the corner and mocking record collector types to his girlfriend, who sort of silently nodded along. "Fucking records, who gives a shit," I remember hims saying. I could have done without this guy, but otherwise this was a good day at my favorite record store.

I spent hours on Friday rummaging through my friend mike's store. haven't seen him in years! so nice to catch up. and just like when I lived on MVI I found lots of nice stuff. nothing new though. on record store day I was on a boat in the ocean with family saying final goodbyes to maria's grandmother. a kid watched my store on Saturday and he said it was busy. despite the fact that I don't get the phish reissues and all that. here's what I bought at mike's store for myself:

I got the Double Dagger "333" mini-LP from Repo Records, which is all I really wanted, which was kind of pricey ($23.99 for a 6-song/24 minute record + a DVD) but not terribly pricey (like all the 7"s they had for $7.99).

Yeah these things were really pricy - didn't go on the day because I didn't think my small town would get in the more obscure stuff I was interested in and I didn't feel like queuing, but I looked through what was left today: £25 for the Nick Drake LP, £18 for the Soundgarden 10", £12 for the two-song Eno/Grizzly Bear Jaar remix 12", £8 each for the 7"s

(£10 is currently a little over $15, so that Nick Drake was $38 and the 7"s were $12)

if it helps record shops stay alive then I'm all for it but it seems to be mainly only worth it for people who want to buy an armful of stuff to flip the next day on eBay

the whole thing is completely ridiculous to me, esp. since 75% of record store day "exclusives" are just old music in new packages. "never before on vinyl." "never before on 180g vinyl." "never before on cassette." "now with a shitty chess game." "now on orange vinyl."

who gives a shit?

i have no compunction about buying stuff to flip at a modest profit. it's not like i'm flipping some essential like baby food or water. if people want to pay a lot to get something on confetti-infused purple vinyl then who am i to stop them?

i also got some stuff to keep, almost exclusively stuff that hadn't been released before.

well I used to buy p. much any 10" I saw just for the novelty value, I've bought a few vinyl reissues of stuff to sit unplayed on the shelf and look nice while I listen to the mp3s I'd already paid for, so I should be target audience for stupid consumer record fetishism, but it's out of my price league, and like you say it's almost all old stuff in slightly different but generally not wildly exciting or noticeably "deluxe" packaging anyway

but if someone's buying it on RSD at $38 and someone's buying that when they flip it on eBay for $70 and this combination is keeping record shops going then fine, I guess. and if they'd had the Conny Plank, Bardo Pond, Antoni Maiovvi records in I'd probably have bought them and then hated myself when my bank statement came in, so eh

Everyone pretty much otm. If I could buy a vinyl repress of some psych classic I first bought ten years ago on CD for roughly the price i originally paid for the CD then I'd be more inclined to do that. But $30 for a single LP, you are pretty much taunting me to go right home and pirate this re-re-re-repressing out of spite.

7"s all too expensive for me, always, especially 12" singles if there were ever one I wanted for some reason.

LPs that are the most overpriced seem to be the more major label stuff. Joan Baez and Taj Mahal records that are already in the used bin a few feet away for $3 each or less don't need to be reissued (probably from digital sources, too) for RSD with $35 price tags.

I found the smaller label stuff to be priced not much worse than new records on any other day so I was happy. At least the stuff I really wanted.

I bought that mono Van Dyke Parks Song Cycle for $25 just because I felt like I should buy something but I feel like a sucker for it. I could get an original pressing on ebay for not much more, and I didn't notice any difference in the mono mix.

Wasn't there a fancy reissue of The Glove's Blue Sunshine? One store I went into had the original in the new arrivals bin for $11.99. That's the kind of o_O I saw a lot of. I also saw a Triumph cassette being sold for $5 and I don't get that either.

Mostly it was an excuse for me to go around to different record stores for a morning/early afternoon, which I realize I could do any old day but I kind of enjoyed being in crowded record stores. That in itself was pretty fun.

i hit up amoeba the day after, choosing to avoid the insanity. but apparently lots of other folks had the same idea, it was a madhouse! everything i would have wanted was long gone with the exception of the copy of 'you can't hide your love forever' by orange juice that i picked up.

Maybe this was talked about pre-day-of I can't remember and didn't bother to look but the least likely to have sold to anyone in the world was the Avenged Sevenfold - Call of Duty Black Ops picture disc single.

Maybe the one 13 year old who loves the ultimate "bud-lite"(s) of video games and hard rock and simultaneously has a record player, $20 to spend on nothing else in the world, and enough delusion to think it will appreciate bought it. MAYBE. This one kid probably almost purchased it but went for a Rockstar Energy hoodie instead.

at vintage vinyl in evanston, the guy will track RSD exclusives on eBay AND ACTUALLY CHARGE AN INFLATED PRICE AS THE DAY GOES ON. like, some 7" with a sticker price of $7, he'll sell for $70 by the late afternoon on RSD if he thinks he can.

My friend bought that Dave Matthews- he is a rare being that places DMB a few spots away from Swans in best-of lists. I think the list was $149. I wonder the percentage of in-store purchases of that were for flip vs. enjoyment.

UPR is having a special (maybe cos of RSD orders?) where they knock a lot of cost out of pressing records if you don't mind having them pressed in randomly mixed colored vinyls. The cost for 7" is about 35 cents per. And this is for small orders.

was at a record store today, and the employees were picking over the remains, considering a $45 issue of the last waltz vs. a $25 copy of the dazed and confused soundtrack, or maybe that phish reissue, the south park picture disc 45. so somebody apparently wants whatever crap they churn out.

Yeah that's pretty nteresting... I know avenged sevenfold is huge but it's interesting to have call of duty there as the co-brand, are there many serious collectors of call of duty merch? enough to press a few thousand copies i guess. major labels going hard on record store day,

As someone who works in a record store, my first thought it "Ha! Awesome." But we only got like 20 or 30 titles this year and tbh people seemed to be more interested in just record shopping in general than the hyped stuff.

I thought it was about getting more people and more profits into record stores? In which case I'm all for store guy upthread who was increasing the price depending on how much they're going for on ebay.

I was at an antique store last weekend in rural GA and was looking through their records and the lady behind the counter said "Oh, we're putting those on ebay, they aren't for sale." And later when i checked out she asked me who the guy was on the cover of one of the records I was buying, which was "McCartney II".

Great, here comes the wave of flipper defending. Opinions on this board seem governed by the moon's gravity sometimes.

I understand your points but the records are meant for the fans. Therefore, the real answer is that the records themselves shouldn't be as limited as they are. Meet demand and the flipping won't be as ridiculous. I understand the fun of super limited releases for the labels but they should close the gap a little.

yeah RSD is just done weirdly. stores not knowing what they are going to get in the mail until the last minute? not knowing what they will be paying for? so strange. but fun day of record shopping is no fun if there is a big list of rules at the door or something. just don't worry about the limited thing. just sell stuff and have fun. don't worry about what people do after they leave. a large percentage of them won't be coming back to your store until the next rsd anyway.

yeah RSD is just done weirdly. stores not knowing what they are going to get in the mail until the last minute? not knowing what they will be paying for? so strange. but fun day of record shopping is no fun if there is a big list of rules at the door or something. just don't worry about the limited thing. just sell stuff and have fun. don't worry about what people do after they leave. a large percentage of them won't be coming back to your store until the next rsd anyway.

― scott seward, Friday, May 10, 2013 11:09 AM (3 minutes ago)

Yeah, any rules would make things very uncomfortable. The morning rush is tense as it is. But I totally understand any effort of the store to get on the good side of the customers that actually might shop there before the next record store day! Beneficial to win them over, nothing to lose pissing off the ebay opportunists in the process.

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But I get really critical and start to wonder — if there is a "pledge" like this, were these sorts of places ever on the buyer's side in the first place? Because "the pledge" was created out of unflaterring circumstances, right?

even if all of the records went into the hands of true fans, lots of them would sell anyway if the price was right. the crazy ebay prices are not caused by flippers, they're caused by the labels pressing stuff in limited editions.